medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I think he is saying "reading, writing, and painting"
Cyprian Rosen
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> i *think* that i know what this text is saying, but am not sure what it
> *means* --perhaps others might have a better idea, which would be
> appreciated.
>
> Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus, in his massive collection of middlevil sources
> referring to "art"
>
> Schriftquellen zur Kunstgeschichte des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts für
> Deutschland, Lothringen und Italien... Berlin, Deutscher Verein für
> Kunstwissenschaft, 1938
>
> reprints a few lines from the life of Bishop Godehard of Hildesheim
> (1022-38):
>
> [p. 713, #3000]
> Iuvenes quoque et pueros quos...sapidos invenit, per diversa scolarum
> studia
> cirucumquaque dispertivit; quorum certe postea servimine variam ac
> multiplicem
> suae ecclesiae utilitatem **in lectione scriptura et pictura** ac
> plurali
> honestiori clericalis officii disciplina conquisivit.
>
>
> i take this to mean that the saintly bishop taught the young (soon-to-
> be)
> clerics under his care (perhaps even including the author of the Vita)
> to
> "read text [/writings, or perhaps, Scripture] and pictures
> [/images]..."
>
> if this reading is at least Ball-Park correct, i don't think i've ever
> come
> across a text which speaks of teaching someone to "read" images before.
>
> am i on the right track?
>
> or is this nothing more than a somewhat pretentious aspiring
> hagiographer
> showing off by playing with the sound of "scriptura et pictura"?
>
> c
>
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