Katharina Heinz

• Heinz, Katharina (2020). Paratextual Ordering of "Old" Knowledge.
• Heinz, Katharina (2020). Rhetorical appropriation and knowledge organization in Konungs skuggsjá.
• Heinz, Katharina (2019). Kings and Mirrors. A Study of Rhetorical Strategies in the Materiality and Textuality of Konungs skuggsjá. Show summary

  This thesis focuses attention on the Old Norwegian text work Konungs skuggsjá (Kgs) and its thirteenth-century manuscript context, represented by the main manuscript AM 243 b α fol. (c. 1275). While previous studies focused on pedagogical and political ideologies, the main goal of this thesis is to explore how the didactic programme of Kgs is reflected in the materiality and textuality of this manuscript. This study contributes to Old Norse philology in general, and to research on Kgs in particular. It establishes and applies a new method for approaching medieval manuscripts by connecting principles of Material philology and semiotic theory in order to examine how medieval rhetoric shaped the appearance of manuscripts. By using figura, divisio and ordo, this method enables analysis of correspondences between the material and textual level, and how these levels act upon each other’s manifestation. Thus, this approach facilitates a thorough investigation of manuscripts as discursive events and an inquiry into their cultural and ideological roles. Throughout the thesis, I argue for an inherent relationship between the didactic disposition of Kgs and its appearance in AM 243 b α fol., which can be seen at all levels of meaning: manuscript, text witness, text work. I show how rhetorical thought permeates both the work of the writer and scribe(s) of the text witness in this manuscript. Further, rhetorical strategies were applied to deliberate ends for moral edification and maintenance of social and political power. I contend that the interplay between material and textual strategies enhanced the reading in this manuscript and consequently the learning process of a lay aristocratic reader and listener. Ultimately, this thesis sets forth how this manuscript was influenced by its cultural, social and ideological context, and how it, in turn, as only one costly ‘snapshot’ of Kgs, reinforced the literary and cultural status of this work in late thirteenth-century Norway.

• Heinz, Katharina (2019). PhD Education and Experiences: A Personal Road Map.
• Heinz, Katharina (2018). Rhetorical Images in Njáls saga.
• Heinz, Katharina (2017). Applied Rhetoric in Konungs skuggsjá.
• Heinz, Katharina (2017). Bokstav eller bilde? Initialer og deres funksjon i Kongespeilet.
• Heinz, Katharina (2017). Pedagogy and Rhetoric in The King’s Mirror.
• Heinz, Katharina (2017). Rhetoric and Its Pedagogical Intentions in Konungs skuggsjá.
• Heinz, Katharina (2016). Visual and Textual Relations in 13th Century Norwegian Manuscripts.
• Heinz, Katharina (2016). Visuality as Gateway to Knowledge: Mnemonic Techniques in The King’s Mirror.
• Heinz, Katharina (2015). Bedeutung und Bedeutungswandel aus sprachwissenschaftlicher Perspektive: Zum Beispiel trúa.

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