The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse

by F.J.E. Raby (Editor)

This book presents 290 representative selections of religious and secular Latin poetry from the period A.D. 300-1300. It includes not only famous hymns and sequences, but also selections from epic poetry and a large number of secular lyrics from various manuscript collections.

534 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Frederic James Edward Raby, FBA (11 December 1888 – 30 October 1966) was a scholar in the field of medieval Latin literature. His reputation was based principally on two works - Christian Latin Poetry (1927) and Secular Latin Poetry (1934) - which together chart the immense field of medieval Latin poetry from its beginnings in the Christian-Latin poetry of late antiquity to the Latin hymns of the fourteenth century.