Quasi nani super humeros gigantum? Reusing Classical and Medieval Quotations in the Hagiographic Discourse in Tenth-Century Liège
Sibil Gruntar Vilfan|Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar
The paper offers a detailed investigation of select passages from the Vita II Sancti Remacli, hagiographic text produced in diocese Liège last decades tenth century. purpose this is threefold. First, to illustrate point that tenth-century Latin texts did not display quotations classical and patristic authors only as petrified forms frozen ancient wisdom with merely decorative function, but rather raw gems which were polished adjusted fit seamlessly into new framework. Thus, they could enhance both form contents closely connected their age’s political intellectual realities. Second, show nineteenth- twentieth-century editions such can act distorting mirrors modern readers researchers, since, due an editorial strategy privileged material over its medieval context, editors sometimes completely neglected how re-worked by hagiographer following stylistic requirements rhymed prose. Third, suggest necessary corrective approach way reading consequently editing these types texts, places proper paying attention manuscript evidence, complex functions play textual environment.
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