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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.
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.
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.
The commentary tradition on Martianus Capella's fifth-century allegorical encyclopedia of the liberal arts, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, provides an enclosed and rugged terrain through which to map the differing conceptual frameworks within which the liberal arts gained pedagogical and philosophical traction. Martianus remained the ...
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.
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.
Martianus Capella had a fairly steady attraction for Latin schoolmasters dur-ing the Middle Ages because his Marriage of Philology and Mercury was the most satisfactory handbook embracing all the liberal arts in compendious form. In certain periods he was regarded as a leading authority on cosmography and at-
