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Prudentius, Liber Peristephanon

The Latin text of Prudentius' Liber Peristephanon provided in this directory is based on an out-of-copyright text to which some corrections have been made. It is not provided as an authoritative critical edition, but merely as a working tool. There are doubtless errors contained in it (please advice jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu). It is posted on the net at this time (November 1993) as a complement to the newly published study by Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University), *Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The "Liber Peristephanon" of Prudentius* (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993: [ISBN 0-472-10449-7]), which is a scholarly study of these poems. Professor Roberts' book is the first in a new series (see below), all of whose volumes are expected to be supplemented by free distribution of appropriate e- texts on the Internet in this way.

The series:

Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts

Series Editor: James J. O'Donnell (University of Pennsylvania)

Editorial Board: Paula Fredriksen (Boston University), James W. Halporn (Indiana University), E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania), Carol Neel (The Colorado College), Stephen G. Nichols (The Johns Hopkins University), Mary Wack (Washington State University)

Latin culture survived Rome's fall by more than a millennium. The study of Latin texts and the cultural history they embody offers a rich vein still far from exhaustively mined. This series will embrace monographs, critical texts, and annotated translations from any period in the history of post-classical Latin writing. Literary history, manuscript studies, cultural history, the 'liberal arts' and the technical literature they spawn, and what may still be called 'intellectual history' of all periods will be welcome -- from late antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond.

The following volumes have appeared or are firmly scheduled to appear in early 1994:

Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University): *Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The "Liber Peristephanon" of Prudentius* Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993 [available now] 232 pages ISBN 0-472-10449-7

Robert Hollander (Princeton University) *Dante's Epistle to Cangrande* Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994 [due in February] 150 pages ISBN 0-472-10476-4

Siegfried Wenzel (University of Pennsylvania) *Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England* Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994 [due in June] c. 400 pages ISBN 0-472-10521-3