Conrad of Hirsau orHirschau (Latin:Conradus Hirsaugiensis;c. 1070 – c. 1150) was a GermanBenedictine monk and writer at theHirsau Abbey. He is known for his literary workDialogus super auctores, anaccessus ad auctores written about 1130.Conrad identified himself as a "modern" in literary terms. HisDialogus is "the only theoretical discussion of the technique of theaccessus [ad auctores] that has come down to us from medieval times". His own selection of authors consists ofAesop (actually the versifierPhaedrus),Avianus,Boethius,Cato,Cicero,Donatus,Homer,Juvenal,Lucan,Ovid,Persius,Prosper,Prudentius,Sallust,Sedulius,Statius,Virgil andTheodulus.^[1][2]

Conrad has also been suggested as the author of the ascetical works, theSpeculum virginum,De fructibus carnis et spiritus,Dialogus de mundi contemptu vel amore, andAllocutio ad Deum.

• A. Stuber,Conradi Hirsaugiensis Dialogus super Auctores sive Didascalon (Wurzburg, 1889)
• Dialogus super auctores, Collection Latomus, XVII (Brussels, 1955) editorR. B. C. Huygens
• The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 2, The Middle Ages edited by Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson
• Leslie G. Whitbread,Conrad of Hirsau as Literary Critic, Speculum, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Apr., 1972), pp. 234–245
• M. Rainini,Corrado di Hirsau e il «Dialogus de cruce». Per la ricostruzione del profilo di un autore monastico del XII secolo (Firenze, 2014)

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