Notker Balbulus, a brief introduction

These are the notes for a brief presentation I recently did for the medieval Latin course. The topic was medieval poetry and we looked at Notker's sequence 'Laus tibi, Christe'.

Notker Balbulus (the Stammerer)

- born 840 of distinguished parents, died 912

- monk of St Gall, monastery in present-day Switzerland, founded in 613 by St Gallus, companion of the…