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Prodesse et delectare
Case Studies on Didactic Literature in the European Middle Ages / Fallstudien zur didaktischen Literatur des europäischen Mittelalters
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Edited by:
Norbert Kössinger
Languages:
English, German, Italian
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
The Horatian formula prodesse et delectare was extremely influential in the production of texts across various languages and genres. While indeed didactic elements can be attested to in almost any medieval text, and while medieval literature displays a range of possibilities to teach and instruct, the scope of the present volume is more closely focused on explicitly didactic literature.
This volume combines contributions that analyse didactic literature in high medieval Europe from different vantage points. They open new perspectives on education as a working principle or legitimizing strategy in the heterogeneous forms of writing intended to convey knowledge. This broad thematic, linguistic and geographical scope enables us to view didactic literature as the universal phenomenon it was and prompts us to understand its influence on many aspects of society in high medieval Europe and beyond. While the contributions explore case studies predominantly from this period of transition and the expansion of the categories of knowledge, they also trace some of these developments into the later Middle Ages to spotlight the lasting influence of high medieval teaching and learning in literature.
The way medieval writers combine ‘the pleasant’ with ‘the useful’ is this book’s main question.
This volume combines contributions that analyse didactic literature in high medieval Europe from different vantage points. They open new perspectives on education as a working principle or legitimizing strategy in the heterogeneous forms of writing intended to convey knowledge. This broad thematic, linguistic and geographical scope enables us to view didactic literature as the universal phenomenon it was and prompts us to understand its influence on many aspects of society in high medieval Europe and beyond. While the contributions explore case studies predominantly from this period of transition and the expansion of the categories of knowledge, they also trace some of these developments into the later Middle Ages to spotlight the lasting influence of high medieval teaching and learning in literature.
The way medieval writers combine ‘the pleasant’ with ‘the useful’ is this book’s main question.
Author / Editor information
Norbert Kössinger, University of Magdeburg, Germany, and Claudia Wittig, University of Gent, Belgium.
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Frontmatter
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Vorwort
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Prodesse et delectare – An Introduction
1 - Sektion 1: Wissen und Macht / Knowledge and Power
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The Knowledge of Knights and Power of Kings in Twelfth Century England
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Secret Knowledge for Political and Social Harmony. The ‘Secretum secretorum’ between the Middle East and Europe
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A ‘Mirror of the Gentry’: Vernacular Versions of the ‘Secretum Secretorum’ in Medieval Wales and England
57 - Sektion 2: Performanz und Bildhaftigkeit / Performativity and Imagery
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Performing Didacticism in Early Middle High German Poetry, Poet, Audience and Creed in Armer Hartmann’s ‘Rede von deme heiligen gelouben
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Probleme der Bilderkennung und des Text-Bild-Verhältnisses am Beispiel des ‚Welschen Gastes‘ Thomasins von Zerclaere
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“And You Shall Tell Your Son on this Day”: Visual Didactics in Medieval Illustrated Haggadot
138 - Sektion 3: Formen und Funktionen/ Forms and Functions
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Fragments of Didacticism: The Early Middle High German ‘Rittersitte’ and ‘Der heimliche Bote’
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Insegnare in versi nell’Italia settentrionale
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Darf man einen gesunden Zahn ziehen? Ein juristisches Lehrgedicht des Simon von Couvin (ca. 1325–1367)
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Quotation, Form, and Didacticism: The ‘Breviari d’Amor’, ‘Der Renner’, and the ‘Vita nova’
261 - Sektion 4: Modelle and Rezeption / Models and Reception
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‘Recognitions’ as a Scientific Text: Spanish and Italian Readers in the High Middle Ages
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Poeta doctus / poeta doctor: Didaxe und Eros in CB 88
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Il ‘De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum’ di Giovanni Genesio Quaglia. Una psicomachia del Trecento e le sue fonti
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Una bella roba. Novellare als neues Erzählkonzept in Boccaccios ‚Decameron‘
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Die Aufwertung der alten germanischen Heldenepik im 16. Jahrhundert zwischen delectare und prodesse am Beispiel des ‚Liedes vom Hürnen Seyfried‘
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Authors and Works
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Manuscripts
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People and Places
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Autorenverzeichnis
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eBook published on:
December 2, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783110650068
Hardcover published on:
December 2, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110646535
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
8
Main content:
412
Illustrations:
6
Coloured Illustrations:
36
Audience(s) for this book
Germanists, English and Romance philologists, Medieval latinists, historians, legal academics
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