Structures from the Trivium in the Cantar de Mío CidUniversity of Toronto Press, 1991 - 239 páginas The medieval poem Cantar de Mio Cid is one of the great works of Spanish literature. Its precise date is uncertain, and its author has never been identified. Some scholars believe that it was written by many authors who, over time, adapted earlier material. In this study James Burke considers the authorship of the poem as revealed in key structural components. Placing the Cantar de Mio Cid more in the emerging culture of writing than in the sphere of oral poetry, Burke maintains that the text was produced in a manner typical for the Middle Ages by a writer who followed procedures very specific to the period. Medieval writers were invariably educated in the basic subjects of the trivium: grammatica, rhetorica, and dialectica, taught in the 'middle schools' of the twelfth century. In the process they acquired techniques that enabled them to rewrite pre-existing materials of an authoritative character, emphasizing themes and ideas important for contemporaries. Burke argues that someone rewrote epic material having to do with the Cid in this way. Referring to a device described by the twelfth-century Spanish philosopher Dominicus Gundissalinus as 'the imaginative, poetic syllogism,' Burke identifies three instances of the device in the Cantar de Mio Cid. They support themes and motifs of awakening, manifestation, and revelation, and of the hero as exemplar. This volume sheds new light on a central work in Spanish literature and on medieval poetry in general. |
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... sciencia intelli- gendi quicquid est , nisi sequatur eciam sciencia agendi quod bonum est : ideo post theoricam sequitur practica , que similiter diuiditur in tres partes . Quarum una est sciencia disponendi conuersacionem suam cum ...
... sciencia legum secularium , in quibus est sciencia regendi ciuitates et sciencia cognoscendi iura ciuium , et hec dicitur politica sciencia et a Tullio ciuilis racio uocatur . ( 16 ) But since the science of understanding what something ...
... sciencia colligendi per probabilia , et demonstratiuam , que est sciencia colligendi per se nota , et sophisticam , que est sciencia colligendi per ea , que uidentur esse et non sunt ' ( 76 ) 1o ( ... dialectical , that is to say , the ...
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Poetry and the Trivium | 12 |
The Dialectical and Rhetorical Education of the Poet | 27 |
Finding the Topics | 45 |
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