The Vernacular Universe: Gossuin de Metz’s Image du Monde, Translatio Studii, and Vernacular Narrative
Katherine A. Brown
This article argues that Gossuin de Metz’s Image du monde is indebted to both the Latin encyclopedic tradition and vernacular narrative, particularly romances of Chrétien Troyes. As first encyclopedia, forges space as a new genre by combining these previous forms through key notion translatio studii. Not only medieval encyclopedia dependent on transfer knowledge from one language culture another, but Gossuin’s deployment topos throughout his work evokes narratives. In this way, performs transmission learning well scientific clerical audience broader familiar with narrative. The three different redactions monde, although not all attributed Gossuin, relate Old French narratives prosification romance.
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