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Walahfrid Strabo and the Hortulus

Authors: Niedenthal, Tobias;

Walahfrid Strabo and the Hortulus

Abstract

Walahfrid Strabo's Hortulus (De cultura hortorum) is a Carolingian didactic poem of 444 hexameters, probably composed in the early 840s and dedicated to Grimald of St Gall. Drawing on classical models (Vergil, Columella) while grounded in monastic practice, it stages a small instructional garden in which plant portraits function as both practical guidance and moral exempla. The work survives in a compact but coherent dossier led by Vatican Reg. lat. 469 and Leipzig Rep. I. 53. Early humanist editions (Vienna 1510; Nuremberg 1512) shaped later reception. Recent scholarship debates place and date across Aachen, a Speyer interlude, and Reichenau, with the majority view favouring Reichenau. The poem remains a key witness to Carolingian garden culture without amounting to a prescriptive garden ordinance.

Der Hortulus (De cultura hortorum) des Walahfrid Strabo ist ein karolingisches Lehrgedicht in lateinischen Hexametern (frühe 840er Jahre) mit Widmung an Grimald von St. Gallen. Das Gedicht verbindet antike Vorbilder (Vergil, Columella) mit monastischer Praxis und zeichnet einen kleinen Lehr /Klostergarten mit den damit verbundenen Tugenden. Es handelt sich um eine poetische Verdichtung von Erfahrung, nicht um eine normative Gartenordnung; die Überlieferung konzentriert sich auf Reg. lat. 469 (Vatikan) und Leipzig Rep. I. 53; frühe Humanistendrucke erschienen 1510 und 1512.

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monastic medicine, medieval Latin poetry, monastic culture, Carolingian, History of medicine, De cultura hortorum, Herbals--History, Medieval history, History of Medicine, Herbal treatments, Walahfridus Strabus, Hortulus, medieval botany, Walahfrid Strabo

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