ABSTRACT

This article is an analysis of a series of texts, in prose and poetry, by German, French and Italian authors, which praise Emperor Henry III (1039–56) in the stylised form of the Latin panegyric. It argues that the rhetorical training of the authors – often on deliberate display in their praise – lent their literary products an intellectual sophistication and political resonance which are not always immediately visible in the often highly stereotypical texts. Further, it considers the interpretative problems inherent in reading texts so bound by typological and stylistic precedent. Finally, it argues that thinking about panegyric as a social practice can help us understand some of role played by the imperial court in the radical upheavals in the Western Empire in the second half of the eleventh century.

摘要

本文是对德国，法国和意大利作家撰写的一系列散文和诗歌文本的分析，这些文本赞扬了拉丁文古希腊语风格的亨利三世（1039–56）。它认为，对作者的修辞培训（经常在赞美中有意展示）使他们的文学产品具有学术上的精巧和政治上的共鸣，而这在通常高度刻板的文本中并不总是立即可见。此外，它考虑了阅读文本固有的解释性问题，这些问题受类型学和文体学先例的约束。最后，它认为将泛灵药学视为一种社会实践，可以帮助我们理解帝国法院在11世纪下半叶的西方帝国剧烈动荡中所起的作用。