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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. Capella’s major work was written perhaps about ad 400 and certainly before 439. Its overall title is not known.
- The Marriage of Philology and Mercury | work by Capella
In Martianus Minneus Felix Capella. Manuscripts give the...
- The Marriage of Philology and Mercury | work by 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. [1][2][3][4] He was a native of Madaura. His single encyclopedic work, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the ...
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. Grammar teaching, from a 10th-century manuscript of De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii.
"Martianus Minneus Felix Capella" published on by null. Composed in Vandalic Carthage, probably in the last quarter of the 5th cent. ad, a prosimetrical Latin encyclopaedia of the seven Liberal Arts (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric—the medieval ‘trivium’—and the ‘quadrivium’, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, music.
Martianus 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.[1][2][3][4] He was a native of Madaura.
In Martianus Minneus Felix Capella. Manuscripts give the title De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii to the first two books and entitle the remaining seven De arte grammatica, De arte dialectica, De arte rhetorica, De geometrica, De arithmetica, De astrologia, and De harmonia. Mercury gives his bride, who is. Read More; history of logic
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Flourished Carthage, (Tunisia), 5th century. Martianus Capella was an author of late Antiquity about whose life little is known, and all conjectures about dates in which he lived have arisen from possible clues within his one known work. As a consequence, scholars disagree as to whether he worked in the early or latter end of the century.
