Hugo von Lüttich: Peregrinarius

Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-90-04-09325-6
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Latin, Band 17, 154 Seiten, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte

This work is a description by the priest Hugh of Liège of his experiences on a pilgrimage in a work which he calls Peregrinarius Hugonis. Taken partly from real life and partly fantasized, it is entirely written in Latin couplets.
The final destination of this pilgrimage is never mentioned, but it might have been Rome. On his journey, the Muses appear to Hugh and demand that he write letters to the Kings of England and France, and to the Pope. The letters lead to a grand Peace Conference and an end to the 100-Years War which had recently begun (1342). The work contains countless cameos, interspersed between the letters, from the author's private life and fantasy world, and together they present the author with the chance to air all his knowledge of theology, natural science and medicine.
The Peregrinarius is a colourful representation of the manners of its time. It shows how power politics was viewed by a man of the people, and what cures he had to offer against its evils. All in all, an entertaining book in a Latin, which if not exactly classical, is any event well-composed and easy to follow.

Zielgruppe

students and scholars of medieval Latin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schmidt, Paul Gerhard

Über Autor(innen)

Franz Unterkircher †, born in Austria in 1904, received his D. Theol. in 1932 from the University of Innsbruck, and his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna (1942). From 1951-1969 he was Director of the Manuscript and Incunabula Collection of the Austrian National Library, and was still involved in his retirement. Since 1958 he was a member of the "Comité International de Paléographie Latine".