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Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur’an and of Islamic philosophy and science in Dante’s day and explores the bases for Dante’s images of Muhammad and Ali. It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

Islam --- Influence. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Dante. --- Islam. --- Muhammad. --- Muslim-Christian. --- Night Voyage. --- Orientalism. --- convivencia. --- mi'raj.

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When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale origins but includes an extensive discussion of the relationship of the fairy tale to both the written and oral sources. Ziolkowski offers interpretations of a sampling of the tales in order to sketch the complex connections that existed in the Middle Ages between oral folktales and their written equivalents, the variety of uses to which the writers applied the stories, and the diverse relationships between the medieval texts and the expressions of the same tales in the "classic" fairy tale collections of the nineteenth century. In so doing, Ziolkowski explores stories that survive in both versions associated with, on the one hand, such standards of the nineteenth-century fairy tale as the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Carlo Collodi and, on the other, medieval Latin, demonstrating that the literary fairy tale owes a great debt to the Latin literature of the medieval period. Jan M. Ziolkowski is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University.

Folklore --- Fiction --- sprookjes --- Fairy tales --- Tales --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Classification. --- Contes de fées --- Contes --- Histoire et critique --- Classification --- Tale type indexes --- Fairy tales - History and criticism --- Tales - Classification --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- jeugdliteratuur

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Nota Bene explores a little-known juxtaposition of verbal text and musical notation in the Middle Ages. This particular intersection deserves attention from those interested in music, the reception of classical Latin literature, the history of education, and the development of punctuation.Between the late tenth century and the late twelfth century, the musical notation known as neumes was provided in dozens of manuscripts for, among other texts, a number of Horace's Odes as well as for sections of epics by Lucan, Statius, and Vergil. These materials constitute a paradoxical corpus of "classical poems in plainchant" that complicates our views of both how students learned Latin and what was being sung in an era most often associated with Gregorian chant. The book wrestles first with the literary-historical puzzle of why certain passages and not others were "neumed" and later with the ethnomusicological riddles of how, where, when, and by whom the passages were sung.Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University, and the editor/translator of The Cambridge Songs.

Ligature (Music) --- Neumen --- Neumes --- Latin poetry --- Poésie latine --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Musical settings --- Poésie latine --- Latin poetry - Musical settings - History and criticism

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Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Poésie chrétienne latine (médiévale et moderne) --- History and criticism --- Jezebel --- Poetry --- In literature --- Bible --- History of Biblical events --- Normandy (France) --- Normandie (France) --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- -Latin Christian poetry, Medieval and modern --- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern --- History and criticisim --- Jezebel Queen, consort of Ahab, King of Israel --- -Jezebel Queen, consort of Ahab, King of Israel --- -In literature --- -Intellectual life --- -History and criticisim --- Poésie chrétienne latine (médiévale et moderne) --- Jezebel, --- Izevel, --- איזבל --- In literature. --- Poetry. --- Intellectual life. --- Biblia --- Basse-Normandie (France) --- Haute-Normandie (France)

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Education, Medieval --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Theology, Doctrinal --- -Homosexuality --- -Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Christian doctrines --- Christianity --- Doctrinal theology --- Doctrines, Christian --- Dogmatic theology --- Fundamental theology --- Systematic theology --- Theology, Dogmatic --- Theology, Systematic --- Theology --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Education --- Medieval education --- Seven liberal arts --- Civilization, Medieval --- Learning and scholarship --- History --- -Religious aspects --- -Christianity --- Doctrines --- Grammar, Comparative --- Alanus de Insulis --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Homosexuality --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Education, Medieval. --- Homosexuality. --- Literature --- Allegorieën. --- Grammatica. --- Metaforen. --- Homoseksualiteit. --- Latijn. --- Fachsprache. --- Grammatik. --- Grammatiktheorie. --- Literatur. --- Mittellatein. --- Theologie. --- Unterricht. --- Alanus --- History. --- Religious aspects --- latin. --- history. --- de Insulis --- d. 1202 --- Criticism and interpretation --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Alanus, --- Alanus (ab Insulis) --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Geschichte 1100-1200. --- Geschichte 500-1500. --- Geschichte 1000-1500. --- Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Alanus (ab Insulis). --- -History --- -Alain de Lille --- Alano di Lilla --- Alanus ab Insulis --- -Education --- Same-sex attraction --- Alain, --- Alan, --- Alanus de Insulis, --- Alano, --- Insulis, Alanus de, --- Isle, Alain de l', --- L'Isle, Alain de, --- Ryssel, Alain von, --- Montepessulano, Alanus de,