The Matter of the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors

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index b 147 absence and presence, in Dhuoda’s “Handbook ,” 89–90, 97 acrostic: Aratus and, 122n29; Dhuoda’s use of, 95, 99, 101–3 Aeneas and Creusa, 19–20 aesthetic detachment, in Lucretius, De rerum natura, 56 Albucius, Titus, 39–42, 48 Alcuin, 101 Alexander the Great, 85 Alexandria, 45 allegory, 66–69; Ciceronian, 71–72 alteration of documents, 66–69 ambitus, 47 anxius angor, 52 Anzio, 74 Apollo, 25; and Cyparissus, 25; and Daphne, 25, 117n47; and Hyacinthus, 25–26 apparere, 41 Aratus, 50–51; Phaenomena, 42–45 ars est celare artem, 42 astronomy, 122n27; of Aratus, 42–45 Atalanta and Hippomenes, 26 Atherton, Catherine, 53 atomistic theory, and compositional theory, 126n78. See also Lucretius Atreus, 81; palace of, 78–80 Atticus (Titus Pomponius, friend of Cicero), 69; Cicero’s letters to, 63–74; nickname, 70–71 author: absence of, 36; “death” of, 3–4, 29; Dhuoda as, 91–94; and immortality, 36; as own first reader, 11; as writer, 4–5 autos, 28 autos nos¯esas (Thucydides), 28–31, 35–36 Bachelard, Gaston, L’eau et les rêves, 83 Bailey, Cyril, 37–38 Barthes, Roland, “Death of the Author,” 3–4 Barton, Carlin, 128n28 Bernard, Duke of Septimania, 88 biblical codices, late antique, 8 Blanchot, Maurice, 24 book, use of term, 6–7 bookmark, 7 book-roll: capacity of, 112n25; and concept of page, 7–9; and the diachronic, 9; as montage of letters, 65; rewound, 18; transition to codex, 8–9, 110n14. See also papyrus breath, and speech, 10 Brenkman, John, 129n3 Brutus, De virtute, 72 Calidius, Marcus, 41, 49 calligram, 46, 123n35 Canfora, Luciano, 121n9 caput, 10 Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, Narcissus, 76 Carolingians, 87–105 Catilinarian conspiracy, 65–66 Catullus, 5–6, 19, 70 Cavallo, Guglielmo, 5 Certeau, Michel de, 76 chapter, as unit, 9 Charles the Bald, Emperor, 88, 90, 132n1 charta, 64–65 Chartier, Roger, 5 Christian writers, and rise of codex, 8 Cicero: Aratea, 44–45; on Aratus, 43; Brutus, 41–42, 49; and compositio, 61; De amicitia, 71; De divinatione, 45–46; De officiis, 60– 61, 72; De oratore, 40–42; De re publica, 71– 72; “Dream of Scipio,” 72; and enargeia, 54–55; letters to Atticus, 63–74; letter to Quintus, 38; and Lucretius, 37–39; Marius, 45–46, 50; Orator, 40–42, 47; as poet, 45–47; Tusculan Disputations, 60 circuitus, 47 circumscriptio, 47–48 Cixous, Hélène, 105 Clay, Diskin, 56 Clodia (sister of Clodius Pulcher), 70 Clodius Pulcher, Publius, 69–70 code, used for correspondence, 65 code-names, Ciceronian, 71–74 codex: and book-roll, 8–9; in Dhuoda’s “Handbook ,” 98; preservation of form of, in printed book, 7; and the synchronic, 9 Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram, 87, 94, 100 column, of book-roll, 7–9 compositio, 59–62 composition: of constellations, 43–44; silva / hul¯e and, 79–80 comprehensio, 47 conscribere, 95 constellations, “composition” of, 43–44 continuatio, 47 Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, Publius, 71 Crane, Gregory, 120n20 Crassus, Lucius Licinius, in Cicero, De oratore, 40 cypress, 25, 114n19, 117n47 dactylic hexameter, 116n35 damnatio memoriae, 68 “Daniel Scholiast,” 113n7 Dante Alighieri, Inferno, 115n20 death, in Dhuoda’s “Handbook,” 97–100 deferral, syntactic, 47 Defoe, Daniel, Journal of the Plague Year, 35 deformis, 84–85 delere nolui, 73–74 Demetrius, On Style, 33 Derrida, Jacques, 6, 134n32 description, literary, 54–56 desire, in tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, 24–27 Dhuoda: education and mastery of Latin, 132n3; Liber manualis (“Handbook”), 88–105; and motherhood, 88; spoken language of, 134n29 dialogues, of Cicero, 71–72 Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations, 22 dictation, 21 Dinesen, Isak, 105 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 32–33 direction, in Dhuoda’s “Handbook,” 99–100 disease: in Lucretius, De rerum natura, 49–54; as metaphor, 119n12. See also plague Domus Aurea, 79, 82 Donatus, Aelius, 113n8 draft, written, 5–6 drama, Senecan, 77–86, 129n5 duovir, 74 durability, of waxed tablet, 67 e-book, use of term, 7 Echo, 81 Edmunds, Lowell, 117n1 eidos, 35 ekphrasis, 54, 57–59, 114n13 emendare, 37–38 emendatio, 61–62 emotional detachment, 60; in Lucretius, De rerum natura, 56 Empedocles, 121n10 enargeia, 54–57. See also ekphrasis enigma, 66–69 epic form, 8; and forward march, 17 Epicurus, and enargeia, 56 epitaph: of Dhuoda, 101–4; Roman, 16, 68–69 148 i n d e x b erasability, 72–73; and delere nolui, 73–74; of Dhuoda’s motherhood, 89; of papyrus...