Title: Reading in medieval St. Gall
Description: "Learning to read in medieval Germany meant learning to read and understand Latin as well as the pupils' own language. The teaching methods used in the medieval Abbey of St. Gall survive in the translations and commentaries of the monk, scholar, and teacher Notker Labeo (c. 950-1022). Notker's pedagogic method, although deeply rooted in classical and monastic traditions, demonstrates revolutionary innovations that include providing translations in the pupils' native German, supplying structural commentary in the form of simplified word order and punctuation, and furnishing special markers that helped readers to perform texts out loud.

Anna Grotans examines this unique interplay between orality and literacy in Latin and Old High German, and illustrates her study with many examples from Notker's manuscripts. This study has much to contribute to our knowledge of medieval reading, and of the relationship between Latin and the vernacular in a variety of formal and informal contexts."--Jacket.
Subjects: Books and reading, Education, History, Intellectual life, Kloster St. Gallen, Knowledge, Language and languages, Latin philology, Study and teaching, Notker, labeo, 950-1022, Switzerland, intellectual life, Knowledge and learning, Bildung, Buch, Sankt Gallen, Kloster, Sankt Gallen. Kloster
Places: Saint Gall, Saint Gall (Switzerland), Switzerland
People: Notker Labeo (ca. 950-1022)
Time periods: to 1500