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Looking more carefully at the phrase (and not the question posed) I
would agree with you. The Bishop is training the young men in skills
that will be of use (see the text) to the church and for clerical
life. Reading, writing and painting are indeed useful in those
contexts.
Still, the relation of texts and "pictures" as a concept is always
interesting!
best
Grover Zinn
Grover A. Zinn
William H. Danforth Professor of Religion (emeritus)
former Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH 44074
440-775-8866 (department)
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On Jul 24, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Cyprian Rosen wrote:
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> I think he is saying "reading, writing, and painting"
>
> Cyprian Rosen
>
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>> Subject: [M-R] 'in lectione...pictura'?
>>
>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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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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