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ORALITY AND LITERACY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

UTRECHT STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERACY

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UTRECHT STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERACY General Editor Marco Mostert (University of Utrecht) Editorial Board Gerd Althoff (Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster) Michael Clanchy (University of London) Peter Gumbert (University of Leiden) Mayke de Jong (University of Utrecht) Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge) Arpád Orbán (University of Utrecht) Armando Petrucci (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Richard H. Rouse (UCLA)

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ORALITY AND LITERACY IN THE MIDDLE AGES ESSAYS ON A CONJUNCTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN HONOUR OF D.H. GREEN

Edited by Mark Chinca and Christopher Young

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Orality and literacy in the Middle Ages : essays on a conjunction and its consquences in honour of D.H. Green. – (Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 12) 1.Oral tradition – Europe – History – To 1500 2.Literature, Medieval – History and criticism 3.Oral tradition in literature 4.Literacy – Europe – History – To 1500 I.Chinca, Mark, 1959- II.Young, Christopher, 1967- III.Green, Dennis Howard, 1922302.2'242'094'0902 ISBN 2503514510

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With this volume in the series Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy the editors and contributors pay tribute to D.H. Green. If, for them, medieval literacy is now simply unthinkable except in its intricate relations with orality, this is thanks to his pioneering work, which – the disciplinary affiliations of the authors prove it – has resounded and provided inspiration far beyond its home in German studies.

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Contents Abbreviations

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Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages: A Conjunction and its Consequences MARK CHINCA and CHRISTOPHER YOUNG Listening to the Scenes of Reading: King Alfred’s Talking Prefaces KATHERINE O’BRIEN O’KEEFFE Rituale, Feste, Sprechhandlungen: Spuren oraler und laikaler Kultur in den Bibelepen des Heliand und Otfrids von Weißenburg

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WOLFGANG HAUBRICHS

Manuscripts for Reading: The Material Evidence for the Use of Manuscripts Containing Middle High German Narrative Verse NIGEL F. PALMER Some Aspects of Orality in the Anglo-Norman St Modwenna

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TONY HUNT

Fictions of Orality in Troubadour Poetry 119

SIMON GAUNT

Psalter und Gebetbuch am Hof: Bindeglieder zwischen klerikalliterater und laikal-mündlicher Welt 139

JÜRGEN WOLF

Orality, Literacy, and/or Ekphrasis? Narrative Techniques of Visualization and the Poetics of Late Medieval Romance: Johann von Würzburg’s Wilhelm von Österreich 181

MONIKA SCHAUSTEN

Polytextual Reading: The Meditative Reading of Real and Metaphorical Books 203

SYLVIA HUOT

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viii Aural Illumination: Books and Aurality in the Frontispieces to Bishop Chevrot’s Cité de Dieu

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Abbreviations ABäG ANTS ASPR ATB CCM CCSL DOE EEMF EETS OS SS GAG GRM LiLi LMA Mfrk. Jb MGH SS MIGNE, PL MLR MTU PBB (T) PhStQu RUB 2 VL

Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik Anglo-Norman Text Society Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records Altdeutsche Textbibliothek Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale Corpus Christianorum Series Latina Dictionary of Old English Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile Early English Text Society Original Series Supplementary Series Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik Lexikon des Mittelalters Mittelfränkisches Jahrbuch Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina, ed. J.-P. MIGNE Modern Language Review Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur Tübingen series Philologische Studien und Quellen Reclams Universal-Bibliothek Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon, second, completely revised edition, ed. K. RUH, 10 volumes (Berlin, 19771999)

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Sitzungsberichte der [Kaiserlichen] Akademie der Wissenschaften [in Wien]. Philosophisch-historische Klasse Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie

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