Relativierte Referentialität: Überlegungen zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Interaktion von Erzählen und Rechnen

Abstract

With a view to opening up narratological interest in narrative beyond poetic and literary genres, problem phrasing from premodern arithmetic books should be examined in terms of the proto-narratological consciousness they contain. Following a sketch of pre-modern arithmetic training cultures, selected examples are used to trace aspects of a process of mathematical narration from practical contexts leading to the deliberate comparison of narration (recounting) and arithmetic and providing an outlook on modernity. The aim is to show that it is worthwhile to discover the connection between narration and arithmetic as constituent components of historical narratology so that this can be of benefit to Medieval narrative research.