Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Purcell, William M.

Titel

Eberhard the German and the Labyrinth of Learning: Grammar, Poesy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy inLaborintus

Ist Teil von

• Rhetorica, 1993-05, Vol.11 (2), p.95-118

Ort / Verlag

University of California Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Eberhard the German'sLaborintus, the first of theartes poetriaeto be printed, has received comparatively little scholarly attention. Both Kelly and Murphy have noticed that the work conveys a pedagogical emphasis. This essay, however, demonstrates thatLaborintusis not merely a manual for teachers of verse. Rather, the work is a delightful maze of verse, grammar, and rhetoric, a labyrinth of learning containing an allegorical account of grammar, poesy, and rhetoric. On one level, the rhetorical figures are used as inventional schemes for the composition of verse in proper meter. However, the examples used in Eberhard's account of the rhetorical figures also contain Christian homilies on faith and action that are exemplary primers for teachers. The homilies in tum underscore Eberhard's pedagogical theory, which is ultimately the key to his labyrinth.