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Martianus Capella: Dialektik
De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii.
DANSK/ENGLISH:
Fra Martianus Capella: Formælingen mellem Merkur og Filologi, med kommentar af Rémi d'Auxerre. 10 årh., Italien (?).
Dialektikken har et par trick i ærmet, som hun benytter mod de to elever, som hun underviser. I den anden hånd holder hun en skriveplade.
Capellas bog er hovedværket i traditionen. Den beskriver brylluppet mellem Merkur (det bevægelige, merkurielle, tankesind, det kviksølvagtige) og Filologi (fornuft), hvor personifikationerne af de syv frie kunster bringer deres gaver. Værket veksler mellem højstemt poesi og lærestykker i svingende grad af indsigt.
De syv frie kunster blev forstået som discipliner, en fri mand i antikken skulle beherske, men de var ikke formaliseret i et system før Capella.
Martianus Capella, The Marriage of Mercury and Philology, partially commented by Rémi of Auxerre. Italy (?).
Dialectics teacher and two students. Tenth century. BNF, Manuscripts, Latin A 7900 fol. 132V.
Advised by Alcuin, Charlemagne advocates extensive literary education, the only way to understand the most difficult biblical texts. In large monasteries of Gaul, Corbie and Saint Riquier, St. Martin of Tours, but also near some cathedrals in Reims or Lyon for example, and in the palace of the emperor, advanced schools were organized for the first time in a clear and structured way.
The Carolingian education relies on liberal arts textbooks: one in nine books, written around 400 by Martianus Capella, describing the marriage of Mercury (Word and Reason) and Philology (friend of Reason). This book, where each discipline is personified, is supplemented by redevelopment and enhancements made to the sixth century by Cassiodorus (Institutiones) and Boethius.
Holding a large writing tablet in the right hand, Dialectics teaches the queen discipline of argumentation to two schoolchildren. She spears one of them with her stick while snakes, symbolizing the arguments of the controversy emerge out of her sleeve, pointing their heads to the young students.
Martianus Capella: Dialektik
De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii.
DANSK/ENGLISH:
Fra Martianus Capella: Formælingen mellem Merkur og Filologi, med kommentar af Rémi d'Auxerre. 10 årh., Italien (?).
Dialektikken har et par trick i ærmet, som hun benytter mod de to elever, som hun underviser. I den anden hånd holder hun en skriveplade.
Capellas bog er hovedværket i traditionen. Den beskriver brylluppet mellem Merkur (det bevægelige, merkurielle, tankesind, det kviksølvagtige) og Filologi (fornuft), hvor personifikationerne af de syv frie kunster bringer deres gaver. Værket veksler mellem højstemt poesi og lærestykker i svingende grad af indsigt.
De syv frie kunster blev forstået som discipliner, en fri mand i antikken skulle beherske, men de var ikke formaliseret i et system før Capella.
Martianus Capella, The Marriage of Mercury and Philology, partially commented by Rémi of Auxerre. Italy (?).
Dialectics teacher and two students. Tenth century. BNF, Manuscripts, Latin A 7900 fol. 132V.
Advised by Alcuin, Charlemagne advocates extensive literary education, the only way to understand the most difficult biblical texts. In large monasteries of Gaul, Corbie and Saint Riquier, St. Martin of Tours, but also near some cathedrals in Reims or Lyon for example, and in the palace of the emperor, advanced schools were organized for the first time in a clear and structured way.
The Carolingian education relies on liberal arts textbooks: one in nine books, written around 400 by Martianus Capella, describing the marriage of Mercury (Word and Reason) and Philology (friend of Reason). This book, where each discipline is personified, is supplemented by redevelopment and enhancements made to the sixth century by Cassiodorus (Institutiones) and Boethius.
Holding a large writing tablet in the right hand, Dialectics teaches the queen discipline of argumentation to two schoolchildren. She spears one of them with her stick while snakes, symbolizing the arguments of the controversy emerge out of her sleeve, pointing their heads to the young students.