Authority and authorship, tradition and invention, reading and writing in early medieval compilation genres: the case of Hrabanus Maurus’ De institutione clericorum
Ana Belén Sánchez Prieto
From a literary point of view, the Early Middle Ages can be defined as an age compilation. However, nature medieval compilation has often been misunderstood. This is because scholars have limited themselves to identifying source-texts, ignoring deeper aspects such tradition and authority, scope modes reception, well recontextualization process that implies. When Hrabanus Maurus composed his  De institutione clericorum in 818 he borrowed between sixty seventy per cent matter from previous authors, fact far pretending being original, what claims not originality, but although by interweaving his materials with relatively few adds managed  create different resulting product new personality. Using case study the  , this article addresses problems posed relation educational methods –mainly mnemonic training –  and spiritual practices Carolingian renaissance, specifically lectio divina ruminatio .
De Medio Aevo