DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
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Dr Stephen D'Evelyn
Cassamarca Fellow in Latin Language and Literature and their Reception,
Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition
Room: G4
Phone: +44 (0)117 928 7937
Email: husmde@bristol.ac.uk
Research
Dr D'Evelyn is interested in the interplay between the theory and practice of gift-giving and its poetic expressions. This includes areas such as reception, social and literary theory, poetry and aesthetics, and postmodern theology. Current research involves reading the poetry of Catullus, Horace, and Venantius Fortunatus in the light of ancient and modern gift-theory, which helps interpret practices ranging from patronage and religious sacrifice to the exchange of gifts between lovers. An edition with commentary on Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia, in which he shows what sources Hildegard read in composing her lyrics and how those lyrics relate to her oeuvre, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Teaching
Dr. D'Evelyn teaches Latin language and literature, including lyric poetry.
Publications
Academic Journal Papers (refereed)
- "Gift and the Personal Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus" in Literature and Theology, 21/1, March 2007: 1-10
Contributions to edited books
- 2007 "Heaven as Performance and Participation in Hildegard of Bingen's 'Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum,'" in C.A. Muessig and A. Putter eds., Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 155-165
- 2007 Apparatus fontium for 'Hildegardis Bingensis Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum', B. Newman ed., in Hildegardis Bingensis Opera Minora (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis 226) (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 373-477
- 2005 "Images of Music in the Lyrics of Hildegard of Bingen," in Poesía Latin Medieval (siglos V-XV): Actas del IV Congreso del “Internationales Mittellateinerkomitee Santiago de Compostela, 12-15 de septembre de 2002, ed. Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz and José M. Díaz de Bustamente (Florence: SISMEL), pp. 665-674
Forthcoming Publications
- Hildegard of Bingen "Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum" (Oxford: Oxford Medieval Texts, Clarendon Press)
- 'Hildegard of Bingen' (with Fiona McAlpine), New Dictionary of Hymnology