Otloh certainly appears to have made full use of Jeromes statements
against 'secular learning' (see Ingeborg Schroebler's article),
particularly as a way of 'gaining scholarly reputation', which again
could be called a 'topos'. If you're not studying the arts,
your studying something better.
I'm most intrigued by the idea that there could be social
ol political meanings motivations/implications attending objections
to the liberal arts. When Damian writers of the 'idle chatter' of
men in law courts, he both objections to the study of rhetoric, and
the particular uses to which such study was being put in the eleventh
century. A question for Elod - have you noticed any similar angles in
Gerard of Csanad's work?
Hannah Williams
Monash University
Australia
> The literary expressions of the bad conscience of the readers who dealt
> "too much" with classical texts seem to be topoi - probably going back to
> the famous vision in St. Jerome's "Epistula ad Eustochium:"
>
> "Ciceronianus es, non Christianus..."
>
> Yours,
>
> Elod Nemerkenyi
>
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