1st Edition
Learning and Persuasion in the German Middle Ages The Call to Judgment
By Ernst Ralf Hintz
Copyright 1997
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Augustine as a point of departure This study examines Christian education in early vernacular texts of the German Middle Ages on the basis of Latin traditions of learning and teaching from Late Antiquity. The point of departure is Augustine's De doctrina christiana in which Augustine not only consolidated Christian and pagan traditions but combined them into a program of Christian education.... Read more
Concepts f Learning and Teaching fom Augustine to Hrabanus Maurus * The Lesson of the Muspilli * Christian Education in the Memento : The Call to Judgement in the Late Eleventh Century * Persuasion and Pedagogy in the Works of Frau Ava * The Call of Judgement in Von den Letzten Dingen (Der Linzer Antichrist) * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
Biography
Paul E. Szarmach, Christopher Kleinhenz, Ernst Ralf Hintz
"This book is an outstanding study of the influence of Augustinian pedagogical precepts on selected vernacular German religious poetry from the late ninth through the end of the twelfth century." -- Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies
"Scholars who work in Old High German and Early Middle High German literature will learn much from reading his monograph." -- H-Net Reviews
