Bibliography
Margaret
Gibson
Works edited
Gibson, Margaret, and Lesley Smith (eds), Codices Boethiani: a conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius, vol. 1: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, Warburg Institute Surveys & Texts, 25, London: The Warburg Institute, 1995.
A conspectus of manuscripts containing the works of Boethius
A conspectus of manuscripts containing the works of Boethius
Contributions to journals
Gibson, Margaret, “Milestones in the study of Priscian, circa 800–circa 1200”, Viator 23 (1992): 17–34.
abstract:
Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae, much the most detailed Latin grammar available to early medieval Europe, began to replace the Ars grammaticae of Donatus about 800, and remained dominant until the mid-twelfth century. Section 1 of this article deals with the key figures who established that dominance in the Carolingian era, how they studied Priscian, and developed commentaries on the text. Section 2 contrasts the more sophisticated interests and techniques of the "modern scholars" of the eleventh and earlier twelfth centuries. The last of these was Petrus Helias. Subsequent students of Priscian, in their concern to elevate grammar to the scholastic level of logic, found the analysis of the Institutiones as a complete text irrelevant to their new concerns.
abstract:
Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae, much the most detailed Latin grammar available to early medieval Europe, began to replace the Ars grammaticae of Donatus about 800, and remained dominant until the mid-twelfth century. Section 1 of this article deals with the key figures who established that dominance in the Carolingian era, how they studied Priscian, and developed commentaries on the text. Section 2 contrasts the more sophisticated interests and techniques of the "modern scholars" of the eleventh and earlier twelfth centuries. The last of these was Petrus Helias. Subsequent students of Priscian, in their concern to elevate grammar to the scholastic level of logic, found the analysis of the Institutiones as a complete text irrelevant to their new concerns.
