Prodesse et delectare: Case Studies on Didactic Literature in the European Middle Ages / Fallstudien zur didaktischen Literatur des europäischen Mittelalters

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Prodesse et delectare

Case Studies on Didactic Literature in the European Middle Ages / Fallstudien zur didaktischen Literatur des europäischen Mittelalters

Edited by: Norbert Kössinger and Claudia Wittig

Languages: English, German, Italian

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 11 | Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte

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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.

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Norbert Kössinger, University of Magdeburg, Germany, and Claudia Wittig, University of Gent, Belgium.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Vorwort Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Inhaltsverzeichnis Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Prodesse et delectare – An Introduction Norbert Kössinger and Claudia Wittig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Sektion 1: Wissen und Macht / Knowledge and Power
The Knowledge of Knights and Power of Kings in Twelfth Century England Martin Aurell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
Secret Knowledge for Political and Social Harmony. The ‘Secretum secretorum’ between the Middle East and Europe Michele Campopiano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
A ‘Mirror of the Gentry’: Vernacular Versions of the ‘Secretum Secretorum’ in Medieval Wales and England Helen Fulton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Sektion 2: Performanz und Bildhaftigkeit / Performativity and Imagery
Performing Didacticism in Early Middle High German Poetry, Poet, Audience and Creed in Armer Hartmann’s ‘Rede von deme heiligen gelouben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Probleme der Bilderkennung und des Text-Bild-Verhältnisses am Beispiel des ‚Welschen Gastes‘ Thomasins von Zerclaere Ernst Hellgardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
“And You Shall Tell Your Son on this Day”: Visual Didactics in Medieval Illustrated Haggadot Katrin Kogman-Appel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
Sektion 3: Formen und Funktionen/ Forms and Functions
Fragments of Didacticism: The Early Middle High German ‘Rittersitte’ and ‘Der heimliche Bote’ Claudia Wittig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Insegnare in versi nell’Italia settentrionale Corrado Bologna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	210
Darf man einen gesunden Zahn ziehen? Ein juristisches Lehrgedicht des Simon von Couvin (ca. 1325–1367) Thomas Haye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Quotation, Form, and Didacticism: The ‘Breviari d’Amor’, ‘Der Renner’, and the ‘Vita nova’ David Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Sektion 4: Modelle and Rezeption / Models and Reception
‘Recognitions’ as a Scientific Text: Spanish and Italian Readers in the High Middle Ages Helena de Carlos Villamarìn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
Poeta doctus / poeta doctor: Didaxe und Eros in CB 88 Carmen Cardelle de Hartman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	306
Il ‘De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum’ di Giovanni Genesio Quaglia. Una psicomachia del Trecento e le sue fonti Lorenzo Fabiani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	336
Una bella roba. Novellare als neues Erzählkonzept in Boccaccios ‚Decameron‘ Michael Stolz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
Die Aufwertung der alten germanischen Heldenepik im 16. Jahrhundert zwischen delectare und prodesse am Beispiel des ‚Liedes vom Hürnen Seyfried‘ Verio Santoro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	389
Authors and Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
Manuscripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405
People and Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	407
Autorenverzeichnis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411

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December 2, 2019

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9783110650068

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December 2, 2019

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9783110646535

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Front matter:

8

Main content:

412

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6

Coloured Illustrations:

36

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650068

eBook ISBN: 9783110650068

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110646535

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Didactic Literature; poetry; european vernaculars; education

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Germanists, English and Romance philologists, Medieval latinists, historians, legal academics

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