22-07-2021, 02:42 PM
(22-07-2021, 12:51 PM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Our modern distinction between a monolithic work and a compilation is anachronistic and unhelpful, when applied to premodern long-form works of literature.I do not consider the distinction of text genres in the literature of the Middle Ages to be anachronistic at all. It is, so to speak, the "daily bread" of the medievalist. There are novels (Arthus novel or courtly novels), poetry and sung poetry, novellas (Decamerone), compendiums (Compendium medicinae) and much more. One can distinguish these works already individually in "monolithic" or "compilations". Their abridged, revised or rewritten versions can appear in compilations that deal with several independent themes. It is therefore legitimate to ask oneself which genre of text and in which form one is dealing with.