C. Bruun - A. Saastamoinen (eds.), Technology, Ideology, Water. From Frontinus to the Renaissance and Beyond, Rome 2003, 41–80 , 2003
This article investigates the reception or the “Nachleben” of Iulius Frontinus’ work on Rome’s aq... more This article investigates the reception or the “Nachleben” of Iulius Frontinus’ work on Rome’s aqueducts (his De aquaeductu urbis Romae). Our text depends on only one medieval manuscript, the Cassinensis 361, written in the Monte Cassino monastery in the early twelfth century. Another manuscript, reportedly in the monastery at Hersfeld in Germany was lost during the Renaissance and has left no trace. The impact of the De aquaeductu during the Roman period is restricted to technical literature. During the Middle Ages, traces may appear in some of the many Italian municipal law codes. In the Renaissance, classical texts were read with a renewed interest, and a clear impact of Frontinus’ work can be seen in Flavio Biondo’s Roma instaurata and in Leon Battista Alberti’s Decem libri de re aedificatoria.
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Nicknames are frequently used for noteworthy people in history, like for King Charles ‘the Bald’ and others. This paper investigates to what extent the nicknames that we find in historical accounts were truly used during a person’s lifetime – the alternative being that such nicknames are later inventions. Especially when dealing with pejorative (negative) nicknames it is important to know if the person really was so negatively viewed while alive. As an example , the case of Notker Balbulus (‘the Stammler’) is discussed. He was an exceptionally gifted early medieval poet (c. 840–912 CE) who wrote in Latin. It would seem that the nickname is a later invention.
Nicknames are frequently used for noteworthy people in history, like for King Charles ‘the Bald’ and others. This paper investigates to what extent the nicknames that we find in historical accounts were truly used during a person’s lifetime – the alternative being that such nicknames are later inventions. Especially when dealing with pejorative (negative) nicknames it is important to know if the person really was so negatively viewed while alive. As an example , the case of Notker Balbulus (‘the Stammler’) is discussed. He was an exceptionally gifted early medieval poet (c. 840–912 CE) who wrote in Latin. It would seem that the nickname is a later invention.