| Kommentar |
In medieval times, manuscripts were the most important media to store knowledge for future recapitulation or interpersonal transmission. “Material philology” in particular has familiarized historians of knowledge with the idea that to codify something in almost every case meant to epistemologically (re-)organize it. Currently, data-driven research methods are considered to be the royal road for detecting patterns of knowledge management that were based on written artefacts. In our multilingual class we will evaluate this assumption with respect to monastic customaries. Such codices agglomerated the know-how that a medieval monk had to acquire to manage his everyday live. The ability to read both English and German texts is compulsory. Some prior knowledge of Latin and/or computational skills are very welcome, but not required. |
| Literatur |
Michael Friedrich / Cosima Schwarke (Hg.), One-Volume Libraries. Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts, Berlin 2016;
Kathryn M. Rudy, Piety in Pieces. How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts, Cambridge 2016; Kassius Hallinger, Consuetudo. Begriff, Formen, Forschungsgeschichte, Inhalt, in: Untersuchungen zu Kloster und Stift, Göttingen 1980, S. 140-166 <https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/23862> |
