Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/brill/medieval-latin-studies-vKY0S4C0Ut
References
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0084-4152
- eISSN
- 2222-4297
- DOI
- 10.1163/22224297-90000680
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
By F. J. E. RABY N his valuable little introduction to the study of medieval Latin Karl Strecker gives some account of the position of this subject in German schools. The achievements in France of the Ecole des Chartes and of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes are well-known; but it would be difficult to point to any definite and comprehensive provision for medieval Latin studies in Great Britain. Yet the increase in the number of students who concern themselves with the Middle Ages, whether they are interested primarily in history or in languages, has inevitably directed greater attention to what must soon be recognized as, for them, an essential study. Strecker's book is the best introduction to the subject, and it contains excellent bibliographical notes. Within the space of 42 pages, this great scholar gives an instructive survey of the whole field of medieval Latin studies, having especially in view the fact that such studies are now part of the curriculum of the higher schools in Prussia. He divides his essay into: the consideration of language, etc., prosody, spelling, word-forms, poetry (metrical and rhythmical), prose (including rhymed-prose and the cursus), history of literature, texts, libraries, palaeography, and manuscript tradition.