Robin Wahlsten Böckerman, University of Stockholm and David T. Gura, University of Notre Dame
Though there is evidence for Ovid's continued use in the schools from late antiquity through the Carolingian period, it is really in the twelfth century that Ovidian studies underwent a rebirth in the monastic foundations of southern Germany and at Orleans. In these two lectures, Robin Wahlsten Böckerman, a doctoral candidate at the University of Stockholm, and David Gura, a recent graduate of the doctoral program at OSU and now Curator of Medieval and European Manuscripts at the University of Notre Dame, will discuss their current research projects dealing with Ovidian reception. Wahlsten Böckerman will examine a series of commentaries associated with the monasteries of Tegernsee and Benediktbeurn that represent the earliest commentaries on the Metamorphoses. Gura will examine the Orleanais commentator Arnulf, one of the seminal masters of the Ovidian renaissance at Orleans. All are welcome.
