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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, January 09, 2026 2:30 pm to 4:30 
 pm \n 3rd Floor \n Lillian Massey Building \n 125 Queen's Park, Toronto,
  ON, M5S 2C7 \n\nSpeakers \nDavid Ungvary \n\nDescription: \nDavid Ungvar
 y, Associate Professor of Classics at Bard College, kicks off the Winter
  Convivium series with a lecture on Christian Poetry Books in the Post-Rom
 an West.REGISTRATION REQUIRED AbstractWhat was it like—and what did it mea
 n—to author, to publish, to read through a book of poems in the post-Rom
 an West? This lecture approaches these questions through exploration of th
 e dazzling poetry of Eugenius of Toledo (d. 657), bishop and literary sta
 r of Visigothic Spain, and the peculiar and precarious book culture of se
 venth-century Iberia. At the center of Eugenius’s corpus stands the Libell
 us carminum, a collection of 101 Latin poems that features as one of the 
 only lyric poetry books to have circulated in post-Roman Late Antiquity. A
 n instant classic, its verses were excerpted for anthologies, reused in 
 local epitaphs, and cited in school textbooks. But not a single copy of t
 he whole book survives. The paradox of the extreme fragility and select su
 ccess of the Libellus’ transmission invites deeper reflection on the natur
 e of poetics, reading, and books themselves in this context. If issuing 
 a poetry book into the Visigothic world was to risk its rapid disintegrati
 on, what strategies were available to poets to maintain their arrangement
 s, encourage sequential reading, or keep a codex intact? And how might r
 eaders and scribes respond? The poems of the Libellus, I'll suggest, off
 er us clues.   BiographyAssociate Professor of Classics at Bard College, 
 David Ungvary's research revolves around intersections of literature, sel
 fhood, and social life in the late antique Latin West, ca. 200-800 AD. P
 rofessor Ungvary is particularly interested in the evolution of Romanness 
 through the Middle Ages, the development of Christian literature, and in
  associated transformations of Latin intellectual and literary practice. 
 \n\nContact Information: \n Centre for Medieval Studies medieval.communica
 tions@utoronto.ca \n125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7 \n\nCategori
 es \n Lectures \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityFacultyFirst-Ye
 ar StudentsGraduate StudentsGraduating StudentsProspective Graduate Studen
 ts
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LOCATION:125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7
SUMMARY:Convivium: David Ungvary, Ashes to Ashes, Cover to Cover: Perusin
 g Christian Poetry Books in the Post-Roman West
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/convivium-david-ungvar
 y-ashes-ashes-cover-cover-perusing-christian-poetry-books-post-roman
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