El tercer (o cuarto) blog de Iván

Lucian's de Laude Cestriae

2009-10-06T19:03:00.000-07:00

Dr. Mark Faulkner
Lucian's de Laude Cestrie

Background
Lucian’s De laude Cestrie (On the Glory of Chester) survives in a single late-twelfth-century manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 672; an image is below) which may very well be in Lucian’s own hand. The manuscript is imperfect at the end, though it is unlikely much text has been lost. The extant portion runs to just over 80,000 words. Excerpts, comprising perhaps five percent of the text, were printed by M. V. Taylor in the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire series in 1912.

Mapping medieval Chester

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A description of the Chester Castle and town
http://www.medievalchester.ac.uk/texts/facing/Lucian.html?page=5

Zink - Traduire Saint Bernard

2009-10-06T18:42:00.000-07:00

Imitation, rewriting and transmission in the French tradition. proceedings of the sympoisum held at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, October 5-7 1995, the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ed. Douglas Kelly
Rodopi, 1966
Amsterdam

pag. 36

http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=rwtgpXfx8pYC&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Chevenix Trenche - Sacred Latin poetry

2009-10-06T18:35:00.000-07:00

Chevenix Trenche, Richard
Sacred Latin poetry: chiefly lyrical, selected and arranged for use. With notes and introduction
Macmillan and Co.
Londres, 1874.

Bernardini Claraevallensis opera omnia

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http://www.binetti.ru/bernardus/

Heffernan - Sacred Biography

2009-10-06T18:00:00.000-07:00

Heffernan, Thomas J.
Sacred Biography: Saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages.
Oxford University Press
Oxford, 1992

Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as "pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous fools nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred biography in relation to the community for which it was written; identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; and demonstrates the syncretistic way in which the life of the medieval saint was transformed from oral tales to sacred text. In the process, Heffernan not only achieves a more contextually accurate understanding of the medieval saints' lives, but details a new critical method that has important implications for the practice of textual criticism.

October targets

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October 12 - Transcription of the first book of Pseudo-Turpinus' Vita Karoli Magni et Rotholandi.
October 16 - Transcription of the corresponding part from Karollelus. // Full reading of both texts in latin.
October 20 - Full list of search terms, person names and places.
October 28 - First attempt of comment and text comparison.

Le Goff - En busca de la Edad Media

2009-10-01T20:16:00.000-07:00

Le Goff, Jacques.
En busca de la Edad Media.
Paidós Ibérica S. A. 2003

[Á la recherche du Moyen Âge,
Éditions Louis Adibert
París 2003]

IIFL - D119 L4418

Power - Medieval People

2009-10-01T20:07:00.000-07:00

Power, Eileen Edna.
Medieval people
Penguin books, Harmondsworth, 1939 (1a ed. 1924)

IIFL - D127 P6

Byrhtferth of Ramsey: The Lives of St. Oswald and St. Ecgwine - 238

2009-09-23T19:02:00.000-07:00

Nactus potestatem prioris dignitatis, fulgebat in eo divini fervor amoris qui eum divinis coniungebat mysteriis ut simul in eo cernere posses et bis senorum lapidum gloriam rutilantem et beatorum apostolorum ineffabilem traditionem

Allegoriae Simul Et Tropologiae In Locos Utriusque Testame[n]ti selectiores - iii

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Hur, qui lumen sive igne significat, amorem proximi nobis evidenter insinuat, quod enim amor proximi lumen fit, Ioannes ostendit dicens, Qui diligit fratrem, in lumine manet. Ardeat ergo in nobis ignis divini amoris et sic intus ferveat ut foras exeat...

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/hehweb/HM127.html

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PROSE and POETRY, in English
England, s. XV1/4
1. ff. 1-32: [Chapter list, labelled a-z, the last entry with no sign:] This schort pistil þat folweþ is deuided in sundri materes ech mater be himself in titlis as þis kalender shewes…[f. 2, Prologue:] In þe begynnynge and endynge of alle goode werkys: worshipe and þonkynge be to almyȝti god makere and byere of all mankind…[Text]: Whi ech man schulde desire to love god, Amonge alle creatures whiche god of his endeles myȝte made…whiche be þe techinge of almiȝti god have write to þe þes fewe wordes in helpinge of þi soule. Ardeat in nobis domini fervor amoris.
Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God (title used in Wynkyn de Worde’s edition, 1506), or Fervor amoris, as on f. 33v, including arts. 2-4, Tractatus de quattuor gradibus amoris. Jolliffe, H.15. C. Horstman, ed., Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole (London 1896) 2:72-105.

37

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The Carolingian and Ottonian period had a predilection, in addition to Vergil and Ovid, for the Christian poets Iuvencus, Sedulius, Prudentius and Venantius Fortunatus. These Christian poets, however, sank almost in the oblivion later, and it was Ovid who became the authority fot he love poetry of the 12th and 13th centuries.

36

2009-09-22T15:10:00.000-07:00

On the other hand it is essentially quite different from Humanistic Latin, which can be really called "dead" in its slavish imitation of antiquity, while Medieval Latin was capable of change and was refashioned as the need occurred.
Just consider the superb manner in which the lyric made Medieval Latin its own, or think of the marvelous instrument the scholastics made of it for their system of thought.

35

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After Latin began to be written again with Classical models in mind, the forms which were contrary to the rules disappeared, and corrupt forms became increasingly more rare even though a man like Alcuin occasionally permitted homself a commendite, a deprŏmens, and Paul, the Deacon, a deridor and a meminentes.