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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2010
Print publication year:
2006
Online ISBN:
9780511483301
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483301
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, Printing and Publishing History, European Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, European Studies
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology (13)
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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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"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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