Venantius Fortunatus: Vita Sancti MartiniPrologue and Books I-II

This volume provides a new critical text of the Prologue and the first two books of Venantius Fortunatus'' Vita Sancti Martini, a work, written in the latter half of the sixth century, which paraphrases in epic verse the famous prose hagiography of St Martin by Sulpicius Severus. This edition offers the first English translation of and the first full commentary on that part of Venantius'' poem. Ve...