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Hybride Temporalitäten. Lebenszeit und Weltzeit in Nicodemus Frischlins Beschreibung der Straßburger Münsteruhr (1575)

Frick, Julia; Grütter, Oliver (2021). Hybride Temporalitäten. Lebenszeit und Weltzeit in Nicodemus Frischlins Beschreibung der Straßburger Münsteruhr (1575). Daphnis: Zeitschrift für mittlere Deutsche Literatur, 49:532-560.

Abstract

When the astronomical clock of the Strasbourg Cathedral was inaugurated in 1574, Nicodemus Frischlin, humanist and professor of poetics in Tübingen, responded to this monumental, ‘time-defining event’ with a didactic poem – in Latin, and profoundly informed by the great models of Classical Antiquity – in which he embedded the stages of human life in an encompassing horizon of both secular and religious temporality. With his ‘carmen’, Frischlin aimed to complement the ambitious technological construction with an equally ambitious literary account, gradually tracing the building’s multiple and hybrid conceptions and semantics of ‘time’ in versified description. This article examines how Frischlin’s didactic poetry organizes knowledge of anthropological, historical, and eschatological times; moreover, illuminating the motifs of the moon disc, the ‘Lebensalterautomat’, and the mechanical figure of Death, it sheds light on the emulating adaptation of Classical tradition (Lucretius; Ovid). Frischlin portrays the Strasbourg clock as a technological masterpiece without equal in Classical Antiquity.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of German Studies
Dewey Decimal Classification:430 German & related languages
Language:German
Date:October 2021
Deposited On:15 Feb 2022 13:23
Last Modified:13 Mar 2024 15:18
Publisher:Rodopi
ISSN:0300-693X
Additional Information:Themenheft: Lebenszeit und Weltzeit in der Frühen Neuzeit
OA Status:Closed
Official URL:https://brill.com/view/journals/daph/49/4/article-p532_2.xml
Related URLs:https://uzb.swisscovery.slsp.ch/permalink/41SLSP_NETWORK/1ufb5t2/alma991170198522605501 (Library Catalogue)
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