Peter Dronke

Peter Dronke (* May 30, 1934 in Cologne) is an English philologist Middle Latin German origin.

Dronke 1939 he immigrated in childhood with his family to New Zealand, where he studied at the University of Wellington. After the Bachelor 's and Master's degree, he went in 1955 with a scholarship to Magdalen College, one of the older colleges of Oxford University. In 1961 he became a lecturer ( " Lecturer" ) for Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Cambridge, since 1989 as a full professor and chair in the same subject. In 2001 he became Professor Emeritus. Dronke is considered one of the most renowned representatives of the Medieval Latin philology. In 1984, he was inducted into the British Academy. Published in 2001 a dedicated him international Festschrift entitled Poetry and Philosophy in the Middle Ages.

Writings

  • Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love- Lyric, 2 vol. , Clarendon Press, Oxford 1965-1966
  • The Medieval Lyric, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1968
  • Fabula. Exploration into the uses of Myth in Medieval Platonism, Brill, Leiden 1974
  • The Medieval Poet and his World, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 1984
  • Intellectuals and Poets in Medieval Europe, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 1992
  • Sources of Inspiration. Studies in Literary Transformation 400-1500, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 1997, ISBN 88-900138-3-4
  • Imagination in the Late Pagan and Early Christian World. The First Nine Centuries AD, SISMEL, Firenze 2003, ISBN 88-8450-046- X
  • Forms and imaginings. From Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2007, ISBN 978-88-8498-371-8
  • The Spell of Calcidius: Platonic Concepts and Images in the Medieval West, SISMEL, Firenze 2008, ISBN 978-88-8450-270-4
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