Completing Professor Westra’s earlier work on Book 1 (published by Brill as “Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 20″), this critical edition presents a late medieval commentary on Book II of Martianus Capella’s influential handbook of the Seven Liberal Arts. It also provides an index of proper names to both Book I and Book II. Using allegorical interpretation of the programmatic marriage of Mercury (eloquence) and Philology (learning) as a speculative, proto-scient… More >>