Tropology in Practice: Alexander Neckam’s Solatium Fidelis Anime

Autor:	Tomas Zahora
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature History business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Philosophy Analogy Bestiary Popularity Heresy Reading (process) business Sophistication Anime Strengths and weaknesses media_common
Zdroj:	Viator. 42:113-138
ISSN:	2031-0234 0083-5897
DOI:	10.1484/j.viator.1.102006
Popis:	The widely influential exegetical method of tropology, or moral reading, experienced a rise in popularity in the twelfth century. As a generation of scholars brought tropological discourse to a high degree of sophistication and subtlety, moralization flourished in sermons, commentaries, didactic treatises, encyclopedias, and bestiaries. In this article I look at the parameters of tropology by analyzing the hexaemeral treatise Solatium fidelis anime by a master moralist, the English Augustinian canon Alexander Neckam (1157–1217). I focus on the role of analogy in tropological discourse, the mechanism of moral progress, and the interaction of grace and merit against the background of accusations of Pelagian heresy. Neckam’s Solatium shows us that this often noticed but seldom studied method was an effective, living hermeneutic and didactic tool whose marked strengths and weaknesses offer invaluable insight into medieval psychology and understanding of the relationship between the created world and human pro...
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