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Betrifft die Handschrift Cod. 264 der Burgerbibliothek Bern (S. 144-146 und 303).
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.
Historical sketch of the Abbey of St. Gall / Werner Vogler -- The St. Gall confraternity of prayer / Dieter Geuenich -- St. Gall's contribution to the liturgy / Ivo Auf der Maur -- The contribution of the Abbey of St. Gall to sacred music / Johannes Duft -- The medieval culture of penmanship in the Abbey of St. Gall / Walter Berschin -- The art of the book in St. Gall / Christoph Eggenberger -- Irish monks and Irish manuscripts in St. Gall / Johannes Duft -- Teaching and learning in the Gallus monastery / Peter Ochsenbein -- Latin literature from St. Gall / Walter Berschin -- German language and literature in St. Gall / Stefen Sonderegger -- The medieval architecture of the Abbey of St. Gall / Heinz Horat -- The culture of Baroque architecture at the Abbey of St. Gall / Hans Martin Gubler -- Literacy in Alemannia and the role of St. Gall / Rosamond McKitterick -- Celtic and Benedictine monasticism in medieval Britain and Ireland / James Cecil King.
The Carolingian period represented a Golden Age for the abbey of St Gall, an Alpine monastery in modern-day Switzerland. Its bloom of intellectual activity resulted in an impressive number of scholarly texts being copied into often beautifully written manuscripts, many of which survive in the abbey's library to this day. Among these books are several of Irish origin, while others contain works of learning originally written in Ireland. This study explores the practicalities of the spread of this Irish scholarship to St Gall and the reception it received once there. In doing so, this book for the first time investigates a part of the network of knowledge that fed this important Carolingian centre of learning with scholarship. By focusing on scholarly works from Ireland, this study also sheds light on the contribution of the Irish to the Carolingian revival of learning. Historians have often assumed a special relationship between Ireland and the abbey of St Gall, which was built on the grave of the Irish saint Gallus. This book scrutinises this notion of a special connection. The result is a new viewpoint on the spread and reception of Irish learning in the Carolingian period.
This study explores one means of imparting Latin literacy in early medieval society: the so-called "external school," often presumed to have been a common feature of medieval monastic education. It questions the prevalence of this institution and whether the external school can be used as evidence of relatively widespread literacy among the non- clerical Carolingian population in particular. By precisely defining and chronicling external schooling, M.M. Hildebrandt invites the reader to reconsider conventional notions about the nature of the Carolingian educational program. The author examines the intention of monastic founders and writers regarding education, the effects of missionary activities on the religious training of non-monks, the attempts made by royal and ecclesiastical leaders to rationalize external schooling, and the impact of ninth-century political and economic turmoil on the development of this institution. The scope of this book makes it of interest as a contribution to the current debate concerning the character of medieval literacy as well as a source book for the study of early medieval monastic education.
Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.
Learning in the Middle Ages had the purpose of making it possible to understand the Bible better. This study looks at the assumptions within which Western Bible students from Augustine through the 12th century approached their reading and developed more refined critical methods.