‘Carmina Runensia’: Twelfth-century Verses from the Cistercian Monastery of Rein
The six anonymous poems published here for the first time belong to a tradition of Latin satire usually described as ‘Goliardic’ and best known through the moralistic pieces in the Carmina Burana. Preserved in a unique manuscript in the Cistercian monastery of Rein in Styria, they are among the olde...
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Cambridge University Press
1984
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Traditio
Year: 1984, Volume: 40, Pages: 318-328 |
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| Summary: | The six anonymous poems published here for the first time belong to a tradition of Latin satire usually described as ‘Goliardic’ and best known through the moralistic pieces in the Carmina Burana. Preserved in a unique manuscript in the Cistercian monastery of Rein in Styria, they are among the oldest Austrian examples of this genre. Despite their early date and literary interest, until now they have been known by title and first line only to the readers of Anton Weis's catalogue of the Rein manuscripts from 1891 and to the combers of Walther's alphabetical register of medieval Latin verse incipits. In my introductory remarks to an edition of the Carmina Runensia, as the verses may be called (abbreviated CR), I should like to discuss the following subjects: 1) contents and appearance of the manuscript (Rein, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 20), 2) date of writing, 3) style and themes of the poems, 4) sources and analogues, and 5) authorship. Though perhaps not of the caliber of the works of the contemporaneous Hildebert of Lavardin, whose best epigrams long passed as products of antiquity in the eyes of editors, or equal in satiric force to the barbs |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900003986 |