Zeitenwende. Notker der Deutsche (†1022). Sommerausstellung Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen 8. März bis 6. November 2022, ed. Andreas Nievergelt. Basel: Schwabe Verlag and St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2022, 109 pp., 31 colored images.

Abstract

Abstract A brief edited volume produced for the summer exhibit of the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gall, Zeitenwende provides an introduction, two chapters Notker’s life and works, seven chapters on various topics (the cloister school, the septem artes liberales in Notker’s works, Old High German works on the former, Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy and Notker’s reception of the text, his Aristotelian writings, lost works, and his psalter and psalm commentaries), and a postscript on Notker’s elevation of the German lan­guage, followed by endnotes and a manuscript catalogue. The exhibit of manuscripts commemorates the millennium anniversary of Notker’s death and seeks to contextualize his contributions to local, areal (the German-speaking lands), and European thought and learning at the nexus of the vernacular and Latin, particularly from the perspectives of translation, didacticism, and commentary. Thirty-one unnumbered, full-color figures depict manuscript leaves throughout the text, most of which are printed clearly, but one, on p. 21, is illegibly blurry.