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Ein enzyklopädisches Ereignis: Thomas Prischuchs ›Grundvest‹ des Konstanzer Konzils (1417/18)
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Ein enzyklopädisches Ereignis: Thomas Prischuchs ›Grundvest‹ des Konstanzer Konzils (1417/18) |
In: | Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 139, 2017, 3, S. 411-427 |
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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Umfang: | 411-427 |
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1865-9373 0005-8076 |
DOI: | 10.1515/bgsl-2017-0030 |
Zusammenfassung: | <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In the final stages of the Council of Constance (1414–1418), just six hundred years ago, Thomas Prischuch, a patrician from Augsburg and visitor to the Council, composed a rhymed poem on the Council, entitled the Council’s ›Grundvest‹. It is usually considered an example of political-propagandistic poetry (›politische Ereignisdichtung‹). However, the multitude of catalogues inserted, collecting and imparting knowledge, suggests a different reading, which is supported by the transmission context of the text. Prischuch’s poem establishes the Council as a generator and agent of knowledge and as a universal, encyclopedic event. It is not so much a political, as it is an encyclopedic poem. At the same time, the effort to transform the Council into a matter of encyclopedia serves to underpin the Council’s order and its decisions. Only by this the poem is also a political statement: it reflects the hope for change that Prischuch’s contemporaries attached to the Council as well as, looking ahead to the year 1517, the frustration of these very same hopes.</jats:p> |
Format: | E-Article |
Quelle: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (CrossRef) |
Sprache: | Englisch |