Poesie Und Scholastik Im Spätmittelalter - (Mittellateinische Studien Und Texte) by Thomas Haye (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book presents the commentated first edition of a previously unknown late medieval work, which makes an extraordinary case for integrating poetry into the scholastic curriculum of the University of Paris.

Book Synopsis

Can the study of poetry be integrated into the scholastic system of the late medieval university? Are poetry and Aristotelianism compatible? Is there even a social need for poetic competence at this time? These questions are addressed by the Flemish theology student Nichasius de Planca in an exceptionally elaborate work written in Paris in 1297.
The previously unknown prosimetrum is edited here for the first time and analysed in terms of literary tradition. The edition is accompanied by an introduction, which examines the relationship between poetry and scholasticism in the Middle Ages.

About the Author

Thomas Haye, Ph.D. (1995), University Göttingen, is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin Literature at that university. He has published numerous monographs especially on the Latin literature of the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including Verlorenes Mittelalter. Ursachen und Muster der Nichtüberlieferung mittellateinischer Literatur (Brill, 2016).