Handbooks, Epitomes, and<i>Florilegia</i>

Horster, Marietta; Reitz, Christiane

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“…To try and capture the students' imagination and interest, an ancient reading practice utilized by medieval scribes and copyists called florilegium (Horster & Reitz, 2018) was implemented. The term "florilegium" comes from two Latin words: "flos" [flowers] + "legere" [to gather].…”

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Digital Florilegium

Mulder

2024

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This lesson explains an approach to engaging students in close reading of challenging texts. It introduces florilegium, an ancient reading practice utilized by copyists in medieval European monasteries. This lesson’s approach to florilegium took a digital twist: rather than hand-writing snippets of text into a copybook as medieval monks might, we used a Google form to capture the whole class’s snippets from a shared reading. These text snippets became a shared digital repository that students could use to engage the text in a variety of interactive, creative ways. In the instance described in this article, the students were graduate students taking an online Educational Technology course, but the practice is flexible and could be adapted for use in many different content areas and grade levels.

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Digital Florilegium

Mulder

2024

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“…Johnson 2010: 98–136, arguing that debates about minutiae in Gellius determine the ‘gatekeepers’ of learned society, a point that might be compared to Kelly 2018: 544–7, treating Macrobius’ Saturnalia . See also Horster and Reitz 2018: 434, observing ‘the topos of the important and hard-working magistrate or emperor who, pressed for time, has to rely on all kinds of shortened texts’.…”

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The Birthday Present: Censorinus’De die natali

Freidin

2020

J. Rom. Stud.

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This paper contextualises and interprets a text seldom addressed in Anglophone scholarship: De die natali (‘On the birthday’), written by Censorinus to celebrate his patron Caerellius’ birthday in 238 c.e. By exploring both gestation (natalis) and time measurement (dies), the work seeks to elucidate and isolate Caerellius’ birthday in time; it is the ultimate guide to his dies natalis. Despite a seemingly narrow focus, De die natali is best understood as part of a broad ‘spectrum’ of encyclopaedic texts, exemplifying the ‘totalising’ impetus of knowledge ordering in the Roman Empire, while simultaneously exposing the limits of such efforts. An interlocking set of tensions underlie the text, which resonate with other encyclopaedic projects — tensions between unity and plurality, centre and periphery, and the relationship between nature and culture. De die natali is both a product of, and commentary on, the conditions of human knowledge and the Empire's cultural diversity in the early third century.

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Historische Abbreviationspoetik

Frick

2023

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Handbooks, Epitomes, andFlorilegia

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

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