Reading in Medieval St. Gall

Reading in Medieval St. Gall
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9781139453325
ISBN-13 : 1139453327
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Download or read book Reading in Medieval St. Gall written by Anna A. Grotans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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