Reading in Medieval St. Gall

Anna A. Grotans (Ohio State University)

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Cambridge University Press
19 July 2012

Palaeography (history of writing)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology

Learning to read in medieval Germany meant learning to read and understand Latin as well as the pupils' own language. The teaching methods used in the medieval Abbey of St Gall survive in the translations and commentaries of the monk, scholar and teacher Notker Labeo (c.950–1022). Notker's pedagogic method, although deeply rooted in classical and monastic traditions, demonstrates revolutionary innovations that include providing translations in the pupils' native German, supplying structural commentary in the form of simplified word order and punctuation, and furnishing special markers that helped readers to perform texts out loud. Anna Grotans examines this unique interplay between orality and literacy in Latin and Old High German, and illustrates her study with many examples from Notker's manuscripts. This study has much to contribute to our knowledge of medieval reading, and of the relationship between Latin and the vernacular in a variety of formal and informal contexts.

By: Anna A. Grotans (Ohio State University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 13
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9781107405295
ISBN 10: 1107405297
Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 19 July 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. Medieval reading; 2. Education at St Gall; 3. Language use and choice; 4. The St Gall Tractate; 5. Discretion in the classroom; 6. Accentus; 7. Spelling for reading; Bibliographies.

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Reading in Medieval St. Gall is now the best study in English of one of the most important figures in medieval German literature, Notker Labeo...Grotans has been a pioneer in squarely placing Notker in his medieval pedagogical context, a context that she knows like scarcely any other. -Robert G. Sullivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Journal of Medieval Studies

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Reading in Medieval St. Gall

Anna A. Grotans (Ohio State University)

$66.95

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