The anonyme poem Castrianus (ca. 1440-1470): Study, Latin text snd poetic translation
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https://doi.org/10.37536/RLM.2019.31.0.72920Keywords:
Table manners, Castrianus, Auctores octo, Facetus: cum nihil utilius, EnglandAbstract
This article contains the first translation into Spanish of an English poem called Castrianus, written around the half of the fifteenth century. The poem had a didactic purpose and expected to teach table manners to young English children who were in boarding schools (lay or monastic). Feasting was a core element to the organisation of social life, either in a familiar or in a public environment. The Castrianus in connected with a tradition of didactic texts aiming to teach manners and moral behaviour that were grouped in a canon of educational works known as Auctores octo. Its most related predecessors are the Libri Catoniani, a supplement that was added to it in the 12th century called Facetus: cum nihil utilius or, more focused in England, Robert de Grosseteste’s Stans puer ad mensan domini. The objective of this contribution is thus to set the cultural context of the Castrianus, to study its metrical form and, lastly, to provide the Latin text and a poetic translation.
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