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Abstract:By comparing several French (K, A, D), Latin (Historia septem sapientum, Allegatio septem sapientum), and German (Historij von Diocleciano, Bämler print) versions of the Seven Sages of Rome, this article aims at developing a better understanding of the modular flexibility that is characteristic of this late medieval narrative tradition. It examines small variations across the texts in regard to the Seven Sages' proclaimed misogyny, its didactic character, and questions of legal practice. A comparison shows how small variations in the narrative motivation of events can have a signifijicant impact on the linkage of narrative events within a given version without changing the basic plot and structure of the Seven Sages.
摘要:本文通过比较几种法语(K、A、D)、拉丁语(Historia septem sapientum, Allegatio septem sapientum)和德语(Historij von Diocleciano, Bämler print)版本的《罗马七贤》,旨在更好地理解这种中世纪晚期叙事传统的模块化灵活性特征。它检查了关于七圣贤宣布的厌女症,其说教性质和法律实践问题的文本中的小变化。通过比较可以看出,在不改变《七贤》的基本情节和结构的情况下,事件叙事动机的微小变化如何能够对给定版本中叙事事件的联系产生重大影响。
期刊介绍:
Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.