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Quast, Bruno: Unbestimmtheit: Über rhetorische Evidenzproduktion im Marienleben des apokryphen ‚Pseudo-Matthäusevangeliums‘ (PsMt I-XII), in Bubert, Marcel and Doering, Pia Claudia (Eds.): Fake News im Mittelalter? Zur kulturellen Aushandlung von Falschheit in politischen, religiösen und literarischen Diskursen, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2026 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Volume 22), p. 83–94. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1552.c24222

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Bruno Quast

Unbestimmtheit

Über rhetorische Evidenzproduktion im Marienleben des apokryphen ‚Pseudo-Matthäusevangeliums‘ (PsMt I-XII)

Abstract The apocryphal Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, originally dating from the 7th century and well-known throughout the Middle Ages, describes the early life of the virgin Mary. In particular, the narrative of Mary’s life elucidates the relationship between evidence and rhetoric. Under the conditions of evidence, speech that reveals the divine requires no support from the art of rhetoric. How­ever, in conditions of uncertainty rhetoric strategies are crucial to establishing certainty and consent to the truth. Taking five famous episodes from the life of the virgin Mary as examples, the article explores the linkage of evi­dence and rhetoric.

Keywords uncertainty / incertitude; evidence; rhetoric