Abbreviatio

The Abbreviatio even Abreviatio ( lat. For abbreviation ) is a common topos of medieval literature, especially the medieval Latin poetry , are reproduced in which essential text statements strongly ruffled. Already Matthew of Vendôme praised in his Ars Versificatoria , resorting to the rhetoric of antiquity and in particular to Horace , the brevitas (soon) as a stylistic ideal.

The stylistic device of the amplificatio (extension) served as a counterpart to the abbreviation . Both styles were described in the Poetria nova of Galfredus de Vino Salvo .

literature

• Fritz Peter Knapp : Abbreviatio. In: Peter Dinzelbacher (Hrsg.): Special dictionary of medieval studies (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 477). Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-520-47701-7 , p. 1.

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