ORALITY AND LITERACY IN THE MIDDLE AGES UTRECHT STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERACY

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1 ORALITY AND LITERACY IN THE MIDDLE AGES UTRECHT STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERACY 12

2 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)

3 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 F

4 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 Literature, Medieval History and criticism 3.Oral tradition in literature 4.Literacy Europe History To 1500 I.Chinca, Mark, II.Young, Christopher, III.Green, Dennis Howard, '242'094'0902 ISBN Brepols Publishers n.v.,turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2005/0095/17 ISBN Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper

5 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.

6 Contents Abbreviations ix Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages: A Conjunction and its Consequences MARK CHINCA and CHRISTOPHER YOUNG 1 Listening to the Scenes of Reading: King Alfred s Talking Prefaces KATHERINE O BRIEN O KEEFFE 17 Rituale, Feste, Sprechhandlungen: Spuren oraler und laikaler Kultur in den Bibelepen des Heliand und Otfrids von Weißenburg WOLFGANG HAUBRICHS 37 Manuscripts for Reading: The Material Evidence for the Use of Manuscripts Containing Middle High German Narrative Verse NIGEL F. PALMER 67 Some Aspects of Orality in the Anglo-Norman St Modwenna TONY HUNT 103 Fictions of Orality in Troubadour Poetry SIMON GAUNT 119 Psalter und Gebetbuch am Hof: Bindeglieder zwischen klerikalliterater und laikal-mündlicher Welt JÜRGEN WOLF 139 Orality, Literacy, and/or Ekphrasis? Narrative Techniques of Visualization and the Poetics of Late Medieval Romance: Johann von Würzburg s Wilhelm von Österreich MONIKA SCHAUSTEN 181 Polytextual Reading: The Meditative Reading of Real and Metaphorical Books SYLVIA HUOT 203

7 viii Contents Aural Illumination: Books and Aurality in the Frontispieces to Bishop Chevrot s Cité de Dieu JOYCE COLEMAN 223 Index 253

8 Abbreviations ABäG Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik ANTS Anglo-Norman Text Society ASPR Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records ATB Altdeutsche Textbibliothek CCM Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale CCSL Corpus Christianorum Series Latina DOE Dictionary of Old English EEMF Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile EETS Early English Text Society OS Original Series SS Supplementary Series GAG Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik GRM Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift LiLi Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik LMA Lexikon des Mittelalters Mfrk. Jb Mittelfränkisches Jahrbuch MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS Scriptores MIGNE, PL Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina, ed. J.-P. MIGNE MLR Modern Language Review MTU Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen PBB Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (T) Tübingen series PhStQu Philologische Studien und Quellen RUB Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 2 VL Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon, second, completely revised edition, ed. K. RUH, 10 volumes (Berlin, )

9 x WSB ZfdA ZfdPh Abbreviations Sitzungsberichte der [Kaiserlichen] Akademie der Wissenschaften [in Wien]. Philosophisch-historische Klasse Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie