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The Romans Antiques Across Time and Space (2017)
Book Chapter
Bridges, V. (in press). The Romans Antiques Across Time and Space. In M. Edlich-Muth (Ed.), Medieval Romances Across European Borders. Brepols Publishers

‘Antique Authorities? Classicizing Poetry of the 1180s’ (2016)
Journal Article
Bridges, V. (2016). ‘Antique Authorities? Classicizing Poetry of the 1180s’. Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 3, 143-161. https://doi.org/10.13130/interfaces-7558

The ‘twelfth-century Renaissance’ was based on the rediscovery of classical texts and traditions, and inspired new works based on these well-known materials. However, the nature of many of these new works, often described as ‘classicizing poetry,’ ha... Read More about ‘Antique Authorities? Classicizing Poetry of the 1180s’.

‘“What shalt thou do when thou hast an english to make into Latin?” The Proverb Collection of Cambridge, St John’s College, MS F.26’ (2015)
Journal Article
Bellis, J., & Bridges, V. (2015). ‘“What shalt thou do when thou hast an english to make into Latin?” The Proverb Collection of Cambridge, St John’s College, MS F.26’. Studies in philology, 112(1), 68-92. https://doi.org/10.1353/sip.2015.0008

This article considers proverbs used as translation sentences, in the context of the teaching of Latin in the medieval schoolroom. Its enquiry focuses in particular on one folio of such latinitates, in Cambridge, St. John's College, MS F.26 (with fur... Read More about ‘“What shalt thou do when thou hast an english to make into Latin?” The Proverb Collection of Cambridge, St John’s College, MS F.26’.

‘Passions and Polemics: Latin and Vernacular Alexander Literature in the Later Twelfth Century’ (2014)
Journal Article
Bridges, V. (2014). ‘Passions and Polemics: Latin and Vernacular Alexander Literature in the Later Twelfth Century’. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 58, 87-113. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.nms.5.103263

This article analyses two poems about Alexander the Great from the 1180s, the Latin epic Alexandreis and the French Roman d’Alexandre, suggesting that they are participating in an ongoing and passionate literary debate about how to perform translatio... Read More about ‘Passions and Polemics: Latin and Vernacular Alexander Literature in the Later Twelfth Century’.