Reading in Medieval St. Gall

Anna A. Grotans (Ohio State University)

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Cambridge University Press
11 May 2006

Palaeography (history of writing); History

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: No. 13
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 188mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 800g
ISBN: 9780521803441
ISBN 10: 0521803446
Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 11 May 2006
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna A. Grotans is Associate Professor of German at the Ohio State University.

Reviews for Reading in Medieval St. Gall

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