Autorschaft durch Autorisierung

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seraina Plotke
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle High German ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
Walter Of Chatillon ◽  
Writing Activity

Abstract Medieval authorship is characterized by parameters fundamentally different from early modern or modern parameters. On the basis of the popular matter of Alexander, this article investigates into the different ideas that individual authors connected with their writing activity, into how they thought about themselves and what image they created of themselves, and into what traditions they positioned themselves in. This paper considers the Latin text of Archipresbyter Leo of Naples and that of Walter of Châtillon, as well as Lamprecht’s and Rudolf von Ems’s Middle High German Alexander verses.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Justin A. Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Alan Of Lille ◽  
Direct Competition ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Latin Epic ◽  
Joseph Of Exeter ◽  
Walter Of Chatillon

By placing twelfth-century Latin epic in the context of the Virgilian tradition, this study seeks to promote wider interdisciplinary knowledge of these poems. At the same time, it attempts to bridge a gap in scholarship between late antique epic and early modern epic. The Introduction presents what information is known about the lives of Joseph of Exeter, Walter of Châtillon, Alan of Lille, and John of Hauville, as well as the chronology of the composition of their poems, the Ylias, Alexandreis, Anticlaudianus, and Architrenius, respectively. The poets all lived in close geographical proximity—all were active in northern France for all or much of their careers. There was also a narrow window of time in which all four poems were composed—roughly a decade, centered around the 1180s. These facts suggest the possibility of direct competition and mutual influence.

Ambiguität und Doppelung

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-492
Author(s):  
Christian Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle High German ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Tolerance For Ambiguity ◽  
Source Materials

AbstractFocusing on the ›Münchner Oswald‹ and ›Orendel‹, this article traces ambiguity and narrative doubling in early Middle High German adventure and bridal-quest legends (formerly also called ›minstrel epics‹). It argues that these ambiguities, which surface in the texts as instances of narrative incoherence, point toward an incommensurability between certain religious and secular narrative »gestures«, as well as between their underlying forms of thought. To the extent that (presumably) later adaptations of ›Oswald‹ and ›Orendel‹ display an effort to smooth out the incoherences in their source materials, they attest to a decreasing tolerance for ambiguity not uncharacteristic of the late medieval and early modern periods more generally.

Gersonides and the Jacob’s Staff in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Unnoticed Enigmas, New Perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-53
Author(s):  
Gad Freudenthal
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Late Fifteenth

The cross-staff is an instrument for measuring angles, invented by Gersonides (1288–1344) in the 1330s. The Latin text describing it, written in 1342, refers to it as baculus Jacob. Between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century, this instrument was widely used in astronomy, surveying, and navigation. Scholars have assumed that the early modern cross-staves have all descended from that of Gersonides. Here I will question this assumption: (i) late-fifteenth-century astronomers do not refer the cross-staff with the term baculus Jacob, but their staff may indeed have its origin in Gersonides’ text of 1342; this hypothesis needs to be checked. (ii) In the surveying literature, German artisans and craftsmen describe the cross-staff and refer to it as “Jakobsstab,” but it is likely an independent invention. I also suggest that the “Jacob” after whom the Jacob’s staff is named is not the Patriarch Jacob (as has been assumed), but St. James (= Jacob) the Great, who in the eleventh century became the object of great veneration.


scholarly journals On the origin of the constitution 
Alearum lusus (C. 3,43,1)
and its insertion into the Codex Justinianus

2013 ◽  
Vol 81 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Jan Hallebeek
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
Legal Doctrine

The article explores the origin of C. 3,43,1, which is a Latin epitome (Alearum lusus) of an originally Greek constitution of Justinian’s. The main issues discussed are when this constitution was translated, epitomized and by whom and when it was inserted in book III of the Codex. This is done by investigating the traces of the approximate times when the influence of the constitution in legal doctrine is apparent, both in civil and canon law. Furthermore, some com­mentaries on the Decretum Gratiani appear to reveal further information on the origin of the Latin text. The article aims at contributing to a better understanding of the genesis of the text of the Codex Justinianus as we know it in the early modern editions and Krüger’s 1877 edition.


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