Читать книгу Gesammelte Aufsätze zur romanischen Philologie – Studienausgabe. Herausgegeben und ergänzt um Aufsätze, Primärbibliographie und Nachwort von Matthias Bormuth und Martin Vialon онлайн

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In the Middle Ages, the consistent use of typological or figurative interpretationFiguraldeutung gives to the hymnic eulogies a very specific aspect; the history of salvation through Christ’s incarnation becomes the leitmotif of the providential harmony of world history. In the flowering period of mediaeval Latin hymnology, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the metaphors furnished by the figurative interpretation are fused, in a high developed technique, with another kind of figures: plays on rhymes and sounds which, in numerous particular cases and seen as a whole, also have a symbolic meaning. This confers upon the hymns a very characteristic form of witticism, unique at its level of style, although it may be possible to find some parallels in certain later periods of poetry.30 We shall try to analyse several specimens, beginning with one of the sequences of Notker BalbulusNotker Balbulus († 912), the inventor of the sequence form. He uses the tu anaphoraAnaphertu-Anapher in several of his works; I have chosen the sequence ‘In Purificatione Beatae Mariae’:31