Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Thomas Haye -- Vorwort / Thomas Haye -- 1 Einführung in die Gattungsdiskussion / Thomas Haye -- 2 Das Lehrgedicht in der Forschung / Thomas Haye -- 3 Die Mittelalterliche Gattungspoetik / Thomas Haye -- 4 Talia Quis Veterum Sine Prosa Scripsit? Das Selbstverständnis der Dichter / Thomas Haye -- 5 Der Autor und Sein Publikum: Literarische und Reale Kommunikationssituationen / Thomas Haye -- 6 Themen und Titel - Themen im Titel / Thomas Haye -- 7 Äussere und Innere Form / Thomas Haye -- 8 Formen der Relativierung und Parodierung / Thomas Haye -- 9 Das Lehrgedicht im Vergleich - Abgrenzungen und Übergänge / Thomas Haye -- 10 Die Überlieferungsträger / Thomas Haye -- 11 Konjunkturen einer Gattung / Thomas Haye -- 12 Bilanz / Thomas Haye -- Literaturverzeichnis / Thomas Haye -- Index der Zitierten Handschriften / Thomas Haye -- Index der Zitierten Autoren und Werke / Thomas Haye -- Mitiella Teinische Studien und Texte / Thomas Haye.

Over the past two thousand years the didactic poem has been a central genre in Latin literature. Although the existence of the genre is well-documented in Classical Antiquity and the post-Renaissance period, its development during the Middle Ages has never been properly assessed before. Professor Haye's book corrects this situation. The didactic poem flourished in the medieval period, and became the most important didactic tool in schools and universities. From the 12th century onwards it also became a model for the vernacular literature of Germany, England, France, and Italy. Apart from giving an overview of the genre in the Middle Ages, this book notes and evaluates many as yet unpublished poems. It also makes an important contribution to the methodological problems involved in the accurate description of a historical genre.

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