Theodulus' eclogue

Theodulus, Ecloga ; printed by Konrad Kachelofen in Leipzig in 1492. The verses are annotated throughout this print.

The Eclogue of Theodulus (Latin: Ecloga Theoduli , in early printing also Egloga ) is a dialogue that was probably written in Latin and in verse in the 9th or 10th century and was widely used as a school text in the Middle Ages and probably up to the Renaissance .

Content and author

The subject is a dispute between Alathia ( Greek αλήθεια = truth) and Pseustis (falsehood, lie), in which Phronesis (reason) acts as arbiter. The contested poem comes in a bucolic disguise: the shepherd Pseustis, soaked with Athenian wisdom, and the Christian shepherdess Alathia both fight for their religion. Alathia opposes every pagan legend with a biblical story.

The author's name is considered a pseudonym . Some authors attribute the work to Gottschalk von Orbais (805–869). The Latin theodolus corresponds to the German translation of the name Gottschalk ( Godescalc : servant or slave of God). According to Ernst Robert Curtius in 1948, Karl Strecker had already contradicted this view and "proved it to be erroneous": Strecker had rather classified the work in the 10th century.

output

Konrad Goehl , Jorit Wintjes: The ecloga of Theodulus . Translated by Konrad Goehl, with an introduction and explanations by Jorit Wintjes. Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86888-052-6

literature

Ruth Affolter-Nydegger: Salvation history clad in bucolic garb. Bernhard von Utrecht, commentary on the "Ecloga Theoduli" . In: Regula Forster / Paul Michel (ed.): Significatio. Studies on the history of exegesis and hermeneutics II , Pano-Verlag, Zurich 2007. ISBN 978-3-907576-38-0 pp. 271-324, with texts, German translations and comments.

Digital copies

Copies Konrad Kachelofen 1489 ( edition 1489 in the complete catalog of the cradle prints (GW number M45870)):

City library (Lübeck) , digitized , signature I.-K. 1218
Bavarian State Library , digitized

Copy of the tiled stove 1492 ( edition 1492 in the complete catalog of incandescent prints (GW number M45871)):

Herzog August Library , digitized ;

Web links

Commons : Eclogue of Theodulus - collection of images, videos and audio files

Edition in Migne's Patrologia Latina Text of the Eclogue as PDF, Documenta Catholica Omnia
Felicitas Noeske, "Inkunabel (4)," in bibliotheca.gym , 19/11/2015, ( article ).

Individual evidence

↑ Ronald E. Pepin, An English Translation of the Auctores Octo: A Medieval Reader , Mediaeval Studies 12 (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999), pp. 25-40.
^ ^A ^b The Cambridge Medieval History
^ After Hermann Reich (ed.): German poets of the Latin Middle Ages in German verse. Munich: Beck 1913, p. 485
^ Ernst Robert Curtius : European literature and Latin Middle Ages . Bern 1948, seventh edition 1969, p. 266, note 1

[1] Ronald E. Pepin, An English Translation of the Auctores Octo: A Medieval Reader , Mediaeval Studies 12 (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999), pp. 25-40.

[CMH-2] A ^b The Cambridge Medieval History

[3] After Hermann Reich (ed.): German poets of the Latin Middle Ages in German verse. Munich: Beck 1913, p. 485

[4] Ernst Robert Curtius : European literature and Latin Middle Ages . Bern 1948, seventh edition 1969, p. 266, note 1