Pub Date : 2019-02-05DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691170800.003.0004
M. Woods
This chapter looks at passages that beg for performance and at evidence for the recitation by boys of emotional scenes, often with female characters. The manuscripts discussed fit squarely into an already established pedagogical tradition that begins long before and continues long after the “middle” ages. The chapter addresses the medieval teaching of literature from a transhistorical as well as historical perspective and in ways that encourage comparison with other periods. It begins with a translation in The Loving Subject: Desire, Eloquence, and Power in Romanesque France. The poem, thirty lines long, falls into three parts. The first describes the narrator's emotional state and the boy who will try to distract him. Then comes the description of the boy's performance of the lament, which is artificial in a positive sense.
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This chapter deals with the attractive and doomed Dido as medieval manuscripts reveal their emphasis on her emotions, a focus illuminated by modern research on memory. It begins with Augustine's boyhood obsession with Virgil's Aeneid. While Augustine had a dismissive reaction to Virgil's hero Aeneas, he had an obsessive boyhood identification with Dido and her emotional pain. Augustine called his own memorizing of Aeneas's wanderings a forced process (cogebra), but appears to remember Dido effortlessly, indeed almost against his will, and he associates that memory with strong emotions, particularly his reaction to her death. Augustine's rhetorically powerful sequence of words associated with weeping and death fixes his own emotional reaction in our minds, as Dido became fixed in his.
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