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   Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (fl. c. 410–420) was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education.

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   Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (flourished 5th century ad) was a native of North Africa and an advocate at Carthage whose prose and poetry introduction to the liberal arts was of immense cultural influence down to the late Middle Ages.

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   Sep 9, 2019 · The quadrivium of Martianus Capella: Latin traditions in the mathematical sciences, 50 B.C.-. A.D. 1250, by W. H. Stahl, with a study of the allegory and the verbal disciplines, by R. Johnson with E. L. Burge. Access-restricted-item. true.

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   A survey of the medieval commentary tradition on Martianus Capella's allegorical encyclopedia of the seven liberal arts, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. The article explores the different conceptual frameworks and philosophical approaches to the arts liberales in various periods and contexts.

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   Jun 15, 2024 · Overview. Martianus Capella. (fl. 410—439) Quick Reference. ( fl. 410–39), a North African writer, celebrated in the Middle Ages. He was the author of De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii in nine books of prose and verse.

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   Martianus Capella and the Liberal Arts. Andrew Hicks. 2012, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature, ed. David Townsend and Ralph Hexter. This article addresses the ubiquitous matrix of cultural capital in the Latin Middle Ages, the liberal arts, through the lively panoply of Martianus's disciplinae cyclicae.

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   Who was Martianus minneus Capella?

   • Martianus Minneus Felix Capella ( fl. c. 410–420) was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education. He was a native of Madaura .

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   Is Martianus Capella a good book?

   • The book itself has never been translated2 and has been virtually unread in entirety in modern times, except by the editors.3 Martianus Capella had a fairly steady attraction for Latin schoolmasters dur- satisfactory handbook embracing all the liberal arts in compendious form.

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   How did Martianus influence the liberal arts?

   • Martianus remained the ancient authority on the liberal arts from his “re-discovery” at the beginning of the ninth century through to the close of the twelfth. The trajectory of the De nuptiis through its medieval commentary tradition is charted.

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   Who was Felix Capella?

   • Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (flourished 5th century ad) was a native of North Africa and an advocate at Carthage whose prose and poetry introduction to the liberal arts was of immense cultural influence down to the late Middle Ages. Capella’s major work was written perhaps about ad 400 and certainly before 439. Its overall title is not known.

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   What were the virtues of Martianus?

   • The chief virtue of Martianus lay in his presentation of the entire corpus of the liberal arts in a manageable compass. As a treatment of the seven arts it was decidedly better than those of Cassiodorus and Isidore. Leonardi's census shows how clearly Martianus' fortuna can be traced from the ninth century onwards.

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   Is Martianus a Metrician?

   • He makes succinct and interesting comments about Martianus' style and the quality of his verse - he calls Martianus an "ingenious metrician" but does not agree with Wessner that the verse is too good to have been written in the fifth century. He then passes on to the Martianus tradition in later ages. Willis finds no indica-

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   A scholarly article that examines the life, work, and influence of Martianus Capella, the founder of the trivium and quadrivium in mediaeval education. It analyzes the allegorical setting, the disciplinary content, and the literary style of his Marriage of Philology and Mercury, a handbook of the seven liberal arts.