Verlorenes Mittelalter : Ursachen und Muster der Nichtüberlieferung mittellateinischer Literatur /

Verlorenes Mittelalter : Ursachen und Muster der Nichtüberlieferung mittellateinischer Literatur /

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Author / Creator:Haye, Thomas, author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Description:xv, 738 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:German
Series:Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; volume 49
Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; Bd. 49.
Subject:
Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism.
Lost literature -- Rome.
Transmission of texts -- Rome -- History.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern.
Lost literature.
Transmission of texts.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039732
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ISBN:9789004325036
9004325034
9789004325272
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"In his monograph Verlorenes Mittelalter, Thomas Haye discusses the question of why the greater part of the Latin texts which were produced over the course of the Middle Ages has not been preserved. Contemporary sources attest to the existence of thousands of texts which have not come down to the modern era. As Haye demonstrates, these losses are not primarily due to random happenstance, but are often rather the results of certain aspects of contemporary mentality, sociohistorical circumstances, preferences regarding literary genres and other specific cultural factors. Modern literary histories largely disregard the lost texts. The present book argues for the development of a new narrative which duly takes into account the lost texts as well as those that still exist."

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