The Chronicle of Novalese: Translation, Text and Literary Analysis
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Clark, Elizabeth
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Classics
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- This dissertation is a study of the Chronicle of Novalese (Chronicon Novaliciense), an 11th- century history of the monastery in Novalesa, Italy. There have been two major modern editions of the Chronicle (Bethmann, Cipolla), and one translation of the work into Italian (Alessio). The dissertation presents the first full English translation of the Chronicle, the Latin text, and an analysis of the Chronicle’s relationship with the 9th- (10th-) century epic poem Waltharius. Previously, there have been only a few English translations of brief sections of the Chronicle, taken primarily from Book II. I offer the complete English translation of all five books and the appendix in order to facilitate a broader access to the work as a whole for both the general and the academic reader. I include the Latin text, following that of Bethmann, and collating it against the lone manuscript, a rotulus, or roll, housed in the State Archives of Turin. I examine the connection between Book II of the Chronicle and the Waltharius. Employing a close comparison of the relevant lines of the two works, I find that the anonymous chronicler changed the epic poem in deliberate and meaningful ways. With these changes, the chronicler has expanded for his monastery the story of the epic hero Walter, who, according to the chronicler’s new narrative, became a monk at Novalese. Given the analysis of these changes, I suggest that there is value in a further examination of the chronicler’s methods in his treatment of the other portions of the Chronicle, which include small episodes concerning women, various accounts of political pressures on the monastery, stories and legends of the area, and tales of Charlemagne.
- Date of publication
- May 2017
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- Rives, James
- Newton, Francis
- Babcock, Robert
- O'Hara, James
- Bull, Marcus
- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
- Graduation year
- 2017
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