Gloss
A gloss is a comment language added in the margins or between lines of text or a book to explain a foreign word or dialect, a rare term.
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Linguistics
The term comes from ancient Greek / Gloss, literally "language" which actually refers to the term hard to explain. The explanation itself is named / glssma. Currently, gloss refers to the explanation and not the word to ramble. Finally, a glossary is strictly a collection of glosses, that is to say (literally) a list of definitions for obscure or old. Currently, the term is often used for lexicon.
In ancient texts, because of deterioration caused by successive copies, sometimes some glosses become indistinguishable from the original text. Historical analysis of these texts is trying, among other things, detect glosses based on the phylogeny of the words and grammar , these two elements for a given language, which varied slightly over time.
The glosses are also used in philology as the language of the author glosses is poorly understood. Their study allows to better know the language.
Depending on its position relative to the main text, the gloss can be said flanking or linear, or marginal, intermediate or continuous.
The gloss also means a legal method of analysis used in medieval texts for the study of Roman law and canon law , which gave its name to the stream of commentators, and that of postglossateurs.
Do not confuse a gloss with the gnosis.
History
In the Middle Ages, the gloss is biblical. Walafrid Strabo (ninth century), Benedictine monk, summarized in his gloss ordinaria on the Bible lessons to Raban Maur , he was a pupil at the Abbey of Fulda. This is a gloss supervisor. Anselm of Laon , a theologian of the XI century, used the interlinear gloss. Two glosses are famous Magna glossatura in Psalmos of Peter Lombard on the Psalms (circa 1160), and the Franciscan Postill Nicolas de Lyre (XIVth century).
The abandonment of the gloss for the benefit of the reference (final score at the end of chapter or end of the book) is explained by the passage of an intensive reading (on a few texts but read in depth) to a reading extensively (on a large number of texts) (1991, 62). The function of review is therefore more food for thought on the text but to provide avenues for expansion of the reading. Diderot then plays a central role (Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Revolution of print in Europe early modern times, Paris: Editions La Dcouverte, 1991, p. 62).
Poetic form
A gloss is also a poem that parodies a famous poem to another because of a verse by verse parodied. It was introduced in France with Anne of Austria and Spain. She never acclimated well here. There is little that which is well known, that of the Sonnet Sarrazin Job Benserade see quarrel Jobelin and uranists. It is in verse 4 verse and contains as many as there are verses in the poem glosses. Each of these lines is at its largest, the fourth to each of the stanzas of the gloss.
Bibliography
Texts with commentaries
- William of Conches :. Jeauneau, William of Conches. Glosae super Platonem Studies on the gloss
- Demarcq, Jacques. "The space of the page, between empty and full." The adventure of writing: the page, eds. Anne Zali, (1999): 65-103. Paris: BNF.
See also
Related articles
External Links
- [1] development of the printing
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