Egbert of Liège

Egbert
Occupation teacher at the cathedral school of Liège
Language Latin
Period around 1023
Genre instructive compilation
Notable work Fecunda Ratis ("The Richly Laden Ship")

Egbert of Liège, in Latin Ecbertus Leodiensis, was an 11th-century educator and author, working at the cathedral school in Liège (in what is now Belgium). His main work, produced around 1023, is an educational collection entitled Fecunda Ratis ("The Richly Laden Ship"), divided into two parts, the "Prora" (Prow), containing proverbs and classical and secular stories, and the "Puppis" (Poop) with extracts from biblical and patristic writers.[1] The collection contains the earliest known precursor of the Little Red Riding Hood story.[2]

A critical edition of the Fecunda Ratis by Ernst Voigt was published in the series Monumenta Germaniae Historica in 1889. An English translation by Robert Gary Babcock has been published as book 25 in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Harvard University Press, 2013).

References

  1. ↑ W. Maaz, "Egbert von Lüttich", Lexikon des Mittelalters, vol. 3, 1602-1603.
  2. ↑ Jan M. Ziolkowski, "A Fairy Tale from before Fairy Tales: Egbert of Liège's 'De puella a lupellis seruata' and the Medieval Background of 'Little Red Riding Hood'", Speculum 67/3 (1992), pp. 549-575.

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