Kaiser Konstantin, Gregor der Grosse und Walahfrid Strabo im Gespräch. Zusammenhänge zwischen Wörterbucharbeit. Quellen- und Textkritik

• Authors: Pörnbacher Mechthild

Title variants

EN

THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE, GREGORY THE GREAT, AND WALAHFRID STRABO IN CONVERSATION. CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LEXICOGRAPHY, 'QUELLENKRITIK' AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

Lexicography may seem to be nothing more than drudgery. However, there are many unexpected treasures waiting to reward the researcher. The context of 'pictura doctoricia' (instructive painting) in the 'translatio Severini' written in 902 by deacon John of Naples illustrates the authority of images and the function of iconography. The same theme recurs in the legend of the emperor Constantine and Pope Silvester, well-known throughout the Middle Ages. The recurrence of beautiful quotations from the homiliae in evangelia of saint Gregory the Great demonstrates how widely used this treatise was. Consideration of textual variants in excerpting can lead to the discovery of a new lemma, as in the case of exhereditas, and may highlight the transmission of rare words and the reception of texts.

Keywords

EN

CONSTANTINE; GREGORY THE GREAT; LEXICOGRAPHY; WALAHFRID STRABO

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 75-84
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pörnbacher Mechthild

• Mechthild Pörnbacher, Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Alfons-Goppel-Str. 11, 80539 München, Germany

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CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA05654