nam 22 uu 4500 duepublico_mods_00000886 10.25926/vvmt-a823 doi duepublico_mods_00000886 ger DE-601 rda eng 800 sdnb Putz, Franziska Author aut Adding Stories to the Equation. Exploring the Narrative Potential of Late Medieval and Early Modern Reckoning Books Putz, Franziska text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Reckoning books are an important but mostly overlooked source for the narration of knowledge. They grow especially important on the verge of the early modern period, where emerging European long-distance trade connections and the rise of the merchant class result in an unprecedented thirst for mathematical knowledge. Reckoning books now appear all over the continent, trying to tell the story of mathematics in short didactic examples. This article therefore aims to look at the reckoning books from a philological, narratological perspective and to grasp the narrative transfer of knowledge in the short form of the reckoning example. It is shown that these very brief examples are effective because they evoke so-called proto-narratives in just a few words and use narration as a potent tool of knowledge transfer. article Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften DIEGESIS Jg. 15 (2026) H. 1 host institution his 15:1<144 Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, DIEGESIS Diegesis 2195-2116 duepublico_mods_00000079 https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000886 object in context https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/duepublico_derivate_00001141/dej26150108.pdf raw object https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/rsc/thumbnail/duepublico_mods_00000886.png preview https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000886 uri