Fail Again. Fail Better Notker Balbulus cum suis on the Impossibility of Writing the Life of St Gallus
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| Publication date | 2023 |
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| Book title | Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography |
| Book subtitle | Heroes and Heroines in Late Antique and Medieval Narrative |
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| Series | Fabulae |
| Event | HOLY HERO(IN)ES |
| Pages (from-to) | 105-122 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Publisher | Turnhout: Brepols |
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| Abstract | In the 880s, Notker Balbulus (c. 840–912), a monk in the monastery of Sankt Gallen on the southern shore of the Bodensee, was challenged by his friend Tuotilo to write a new Life of the cloister’s eponymous saint.1 Although several Lives were already available, Notker decided to take up the gauntlet. The piece of hagiography he wrote in collaboration with a few younger monks is one of the strangest texts in the history of Latin literature. In trying to analyse and interpret the work it may be helpful to use concepts taken from twentieth-century literary theory, as I hope to demonstrate. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1484/M.FABULAE-EB.5.132450 |
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