This volume grew out of a conference held in Prague in October 6-8, 2011.
Obscurity has been recognized as a component or aspect, a possibility, of discourse since the very beginnings of European culture. The word has numerous connotations, some of which contradict one another, and perhaps refers to a set of ideas rather than to a single idea. Nevertheless, as this volume shows, the notion is crucial for the overall conception of reality and its exploration reveals new features of medieval life and thought.
Author(s): Lucie Doležalová, Jeff Rider, Alessandro Zironi (eds.)
Series: Medium Aevum Quotidianum, Sonderband, 30
Publisher: Medium Aevum Quotidianum
Year: 2013
Language: English, French, Italian
Pages: VIII+198
City: Krems
Lucie Doležalová, Jeff Rider and Alessandro Zironi / Textual Obscurity in the Middle Ages (Introduction) 1
Florin George Calian / "Clarifications" of Obscurity: Conditions for Proclus's Allegorical Reading of Plato's "Parmenides" 15
Christiane Veyrard-Cosme / "Lucifica nigris tunc nuntio regna figuris". Poétique textuelle de "l'obscuritas" dans les recueils d'énigmes latines du Haut moyen Age (VIIe-VIIIe s.) 32
Jeff Rider / The Enigmatic Style in Twelfth-Century French Literature 49
Susan Small / "Mise en abyme" in Marie de France's "Laüstic" 63
Greti Dinkova-Bruun / Perturbations of the Soul: Alexander of Ashby and Aegidius of Paris on Understanding Biblical "Obscuritas" 75
Carla Piccone / "Versus obscuri" nella poesia didascalica grammaticale del XIII sec. 87
Alessandro Zironi / Disclosing Secrets: Virgil in Middle High German Poems 110
Hiram Kümper / "Obscuritas legum": Traditional Law, Learned Jurisprudence, and Territorial Legislation (The Example of "Sachsenspiegel" and "Ius Municipale Maideburgense") 124
Noel Putnik / To Be Born (Again) from God: Scriptural Obscurity as a Theological Way Out for Cornelius Agrippa 145
Réka Forrai / "Obscuritas" in Medieval and Humanist Translation Theories 157
Päivi M. Mehtonen / The Darkness Within: First-person Speakers and the Unrepresentable 172
Contributors 190
Index nominum 194
Index rerum 197
