Johann Ulrich Surgantʼs Manuale curatorum predicandi as a product of medieval intellectual heritage in Basel libraries. The example of knowledge transmission at the turn of the hand-written and printed book culture epochs

0582246 - HÚ 2024 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Večeře, Vojtěch
Johann Ulrich Surgantʼs Manuale curatorum predicandi as a product of medieval intellectual heritage in Basel libraries. The example of knowledge transmission at the turn of the hand-written and printed book culture epochs.
Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis. Roč. 63, č. 1 (2023), s. 215-235. ISSN 0323-0562
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA21-00227S
Institutional support: RVO:67985963
Keywords : Johann Ulrich Surgant * Manuale curatorum predicandi * Basel * ars praedicandi * preaching * libraries * Latin literature
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Method of publishing: Open access
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Manuale curatorum predicandi – the treatise on the art of preaching written by Basel scholar Johann Ulrich Surgant in 1502 – is usually classified as a humanist and nearly proto-reformation work. The paper disputes this classification, it provides several analytical textual probes to show the deep dependence of the Manuale curatorum on the older scholastic tradition. Following on from former research, a few relatively well-known high and late medieval artes praedicandi are identified as the main sources of Surgantʼs writing. Moreover, the study aims to trace specific manuscripts or early prints in Basel libraries, which could have been directly used by the
author-compiler.
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