John Ridewall (in Latin, Johannes Ridovalensis) is an English Franciscan monk of the 14th century, author of Fulgentius metaforalis, a treatise on mythology of which Fulgence is the main source.
The Fulgentius metaforalis contains a number of chapters, in each of which Ridewall, after an introductory chapter on "idols", associates a deity and a virtue (or sometimes a vice). The edition of H. Liebeschütz only gives the first six chapters:
But the text preserved by several manuscripts included other chapters, such as Apollo and Truth, Mercury and Eloquence, Ganymede and Sodomy, etc. In the tradition of Fulgence, Ridewall gives a "moralized", christianized and allegorical interpretation of ancient myths.
John Ridewall is also the author of a Commentary on the Mitologiae of Fulgence. Notes and edit the code Bibliography edit code
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