‎Theology‎

‎M. Kors;‎

‎bijbel voor leken studies over Petrus Naghel en de Historiebijbel van 1361, / The Layman's Bible studies on Peter Naghel and the History Bible of 1361,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Paperback, XX+208 pages., 16 x 24.Languages : Dutch, English.*NEW ISBN 9782503526614.‎

‎In de periode 1360-85 ontstond de eerste vrijwel complete Nederlandse prozavertaling van de bijbel. Tot aan de Reformatie bleef zij de belangrijkste toegang tot de bijbel in de volkstaal. De vertaling werd vervaardigd door Petrus Naghel (overl. 1 mei 1395), een kartuizer uit het klooster te Herne, die ook tal van andere werken uit de christelijke traditie in het Middelnederlands overzette. Zijn opdrachtgever was Jan Taye, een getrouwde man met kinderen, die enige malen schepen in het stadsbestuur van Brussel was. Zijn bemoeienis, als leek van eenvoudige adel, met het ontstaan van een bijbelvertaling is zelfs in Europees perspectief hoogst opmerkelijk. Centraal in deze studie staat de Historiebijbel van 1361, die Naghel op 23 juni 1361 voltooide. Een historiebijbel bevat uitsluitend de historische boeken van de bijbel, veelal rijkelijk voorzien van commentaren en tal van andere teksten, soms van geheel profane aard. In acht hoofdstukken worden diverse aspecten van de Historiebijbel behandeld, zoals: de persoon van de vertaler en diens opdrachtgever, alsmede de historische bronnen die ons hierbij ten dienste staan; de oorspronkelijke opzet van de tekst; de waarde van de oudste handschriften voor onze kennis van receptie en productie van de tekst; de bewerkingstechniek die Petrus Naghel toepaste; de maatschappelijke en sociale factoren die een rol speelden bij de productie van historiebijbel-handschriften; de (vermeende) relatie met de Franse bijbelvertaling; de factoren die uiteindelijk hebben verhinderd dat Naghels bijbelvertaling door leken werd gelezen, waarbij met name dieper wordt ingegaan op de rol van de Moderne devotie. In het laatste en negende hoofdstuk wordt de meest recente stand van het onderzoek ten aanzien van Naghels vertalingen kritisch besproken. Het boek wordt ingeleid door Geert Claassens, die als leerstoelhouder voor Middelnederlandse letterkunde aan de KU Leuven een onderzoeksproject over Petrus Naghel leidt.‎

Bookseller reference : 41474

‎R-M. Giguere (ed.);‎

‎Jean de Secheville De principiis naturae,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1956 Paperback, 229 p., 16,5 x 25. ISBN 9780888445100.‎

‎Languages : French.‎

Bookseller reference : 41476

‎N/A;‎

‎Etudes d'histoire litteraire et doctrinale,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1962 Paperback, 324 p., 16,5 x 25. ISBN 9780888445063.‎

‎Languages : French.‎

Bookseller reference : 41478

‎A. Berthelot;‎

‎Figures et fonction de l'ecrivain au XIIe siecle,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1995 Paperback, 557 p., 16,5 x 25. ISBN 9782920409064.‎

‎Languages : French.‎

Bookseller reference : 41480

‎K. Porteman;‎

‎Emblematic Exhibitions (affixiones) at the Brussels Jesuit College (1630-1685) A Study of the Commemorative Manuscripts (Royal Library, Brussels),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1996 Hardback, 200 p., incl. 30 colour ill. & 190 halftones, 23 x 28 mm. ISBN 9782503505169.‎

‎The Royal Library of Belgium intends to make its rich collections accessible to researchers and to the interested public. The Library owns a series of seventeeth-century emblem manuscripts with more than two thousand drawings and poems. In these commemorative manuscripts the College preserved its annual emblematic exhibitions for future generations. These affixiones-the phenomenon is perhaps best represented by the word 'affichages'-were one of the numerous manifestations with which the Jesuits used to commend the quality of their education system to the outside world. What is meant is the exhibiting or suspending of the work of pupils, mostly emblems or related genres. The Brussels collection (some forty volumes) is unique and special. It covers the production of a single college during a long span of time (1630-1685). For researchers of emblems, as well as for art historians it opens averitable goldmine. The high artistic as well as literary quality which the volumes so often achieve lends the collection moreover a rare distinction: wonderful gouaches (by Antoon Sallaert), no less splendid calligraphy (e.g. byG.H. Wilmart) and sophisticated, erudite Latin and Greek verses. Attention is focused on the context in which the Brussles affixiones came about and functioned: the tuition (training of the pupils' memory abd their rhetorical abilities, pastoral and social education), The Brussels festivals of the Sacrament of the Miracle, the proximity of the Court, the vicissitudes of the city, the artists. The manuscripts almost always mention the name of the Poesis and Rhetorica pupils who had designed an emblem. Their names are listed in appendix: a rich source for genealogical and prosopographical research (some 1600 names and dates). never before has a similar series been published. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 41482

‎D. Imhof (ed.);‎

‎Abraham Ortelius cartographe et humaniste,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1998 Hardback, 208 pages ., 23 x 28 mm. Illustr , Neuf / bon etat Languages : French. ISBN 9782503508115.‎

‎R.W. Karrow Jr., 'Abraham Ortelius, une introduction'; Prof. Dr. H. Elkhadem, 'La naissance d'un concept: Le Theatrum Orbis Terrarum d'Ortelius'; P.H. Meurer, 'Abraham Ortelius comme cartographe'; L. Danckaert, 'Coup d'oeuil sur les cartes d'atlas d'Ortelius'; Dr. A. Meskens, 'Le monde sur une surface plane : cartographe mathematique a l'epoque d'Abraham Ortelius'; L. Wellens-De Donder, 'Un atlas historique : le Parergon d'Ortelius'; Dr. G. Mangani, 'La signification providentielle du Theatrum orbis terrarum'; Prof. Dr. J. Romm, 'Mythe, cartes et histoire : l'utilisation par Ortelius de l'Atlantide dans le developpement de la theorie de la derive des continents' ; Drs. J. Depuydt, 'Le cercle d'amis et de correspondants autour d'Abraham Ortelius'; Prof. Dr. H. Meeus, 'Abraham Ortelius et Peeter Heyns'; Prof. Dr. G. Tournoy, 'Abraham Ortelius et la poesie politique de Jacques van Baerle'; N. Buttner, 'Abraham Ortelius comme collectionneur'; C.E. Dekesel, 'Abraham Ortelius : numismate'; D. Imhof, 'Abraham Ortelius et Jean I Moretus : la production et la vente des oeuvres d'Ortelius par l'Officine Plantinienne de 1589 a 1610'; Bibliographie.‎

Bookseller reference : 41485

‎H. Elkhadem, W. Bracke (eds.);‎

‎Simon Stevin, 1548-1620 L'emergence de la nouvelle science,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 Paperback, 184 p., 60 b/w ill. + 24 colour ill., 23 x 28 mm. ISBN 9782503517049.‎

‎Durant l'annee 2004, de multiples manifestations culturelles se deroulent en Belgique pour celebrer la presidence neerlandaise de l'Union europeenne. La Bibliotheque royale de Belgique s'y associe en organisant une exposition consacree a Simon Stevin, qui incarnait deja l'idee europeenne : ne a Bruges en 1548, il emigra aux Pays-Bas pour y poursuivre sa carriere scientifique et pour assurer a ses idees la plus large diffusion possible. En l'absence de toute justification formelle de sa part, plusieurs hypotheses tentent d'expliquer ce depart -emigration forcee ou exil volontaire?- sans etre en mesure d'apporter une quelconque reponse qui puisse emporter la conviction. Aux Pays-Bas, Simon Stevin acquit la protection, la confiance et meme l'amitie du Prince Maurice de Nassau. Simon Stevin fut un theoricien, de tres haut niveau comme en temoignent notamment ses ecrits mathematiques, linguistiques ou cosmographiques. En outre, il fut un praticien hors pair dont les realisations dans des domaines aussi divers que l'hydraulique, la mecanique, la physique et l'art des fortifications prouvent le genie. Comme bien d'autres hommes de science de la Renaissance et des debuts de l'epoque moderne, Simon Stevin consacra beaucoup de son temps et de son energie a realiser des experiences scientifiques : il mettait en ?uvre la methode inductive dont il elargissait constamment le champ d'application. Cette nouvelle approche methodologique donna naissance a une science nouvelle. Languages : French,‎

Bookseller reference : 41487

‎N/A.‎

‎GEDENKBOEK DER EEUWFEESTEN VAN DE KONINKLIJKE HARMONIE SINT BARTHOLOMEUS 1826 - 1926.‎

‎, Brasschaat, De Bievre, 1926., Gebonden, vol kunstlederen band, originele papiercovers bewaard, 23,5x16cm, 287pp, geillustreerd z/w, 2 uitvouwbare kaarten.‎

‎Merxem, voorheen en nu.‎

Bookseller reference : 43189

‎LAMBRECHTS, PIETER.‎

‎over griekse en oosterse mysteriegodsdiensten; de zgn. adonismysteries.‎

‎, Brussel, Paleis der Academien, 1954, Gebrocheerd, originele uitgeversomslag, , 18x26cm, 44pp.‎

‎Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, jaargang XVI n? 1‎

Bookseller reference : 44019

‎H. Feiss O.S.B.‎

‎On Love, A Selection of Works of Hugh, Adam, Achard, Richard, and Godfrey of St Victor.‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2011 Hardcover, 391 p., 1 colour ill., 152 x 229 mm, Languages: English Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503534596.‎

‎The version of the Rule of St Augustine used at the Abbey of St Victor began with the command to love God above all things and one?s neighbor as oneself. Not surprisingly, then, love was a pervasive theme in the writings produced there, many of which are introduced and translated here : (1) five lyrical essays by Hugh of St Victor (d. 1141): ThePraise of Charity; The Betrothal Gift of the Soul; In Praise of the Spouse; On the Substance of Love; What Truly Should Be Loved ?; (2) On the Four Degrees of Violent Love, by Richard of St Victor (d. 1173), which traces the likenesses and differences between romantic love and the love of God; (3) Achard of St Victor (d. 1170), Sermon 5 and two of Adam of St Victor?s sequences are examples of how these authors wove love into their writings ; (4) excerpts from the Microcosmus by Godfrey of St Victor (d. ca. 1195), summarize the central place of love in his humanistic theological anthropology.‎

Bookseller reference : 44658

‎F. Harkins, F. Van Liere‎

‎Interpretation of Scripture: Theory A Selection of Works of Hugh, Andrew, Godfrey and Richard of St Victor, and Robert of Melun.‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2012 Hardcover. 557 p., 1 colour ill., 152 x 229 mm, Languages: English. Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503534602.‎

‎Starting from the theory of scriptural interpretation elaborated by Hugh of St Victor, the Augustinian Canons of twelfth-century St Victor in Paris were leading theorists and practitioners of scriptural exegesis. This volume contains translations of the exegetical theories elaborated in Hugh of St Victor's (d. 1141) Didascalicon, On Sacred Scripture and its Authors, The Diligent Examiner, and On the Sacraments (prologues); Andrew of St Victor's (d. 1175) prologues to select commentaries; Richard of St Victor's (d. 1173) Book of Notes and Apocalypse commentary; Godfrey of St Victor's Fountain of Philosophy; Robert of Melun's Sentences; and the anonymous Speculum on the Mysteries of the Church.<br>‎

Bookseller reference : 44803

‎K. Zilmer, J. Jesch‎

‎Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North.<br>‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2012 Hardcover. VI 273 p., 39 b/w ill., 15 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English. Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503542942.‎

‎This collection of nine essays deals with the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe.<br>This volume examines the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe during the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages. The epigraphic material under scrutiny here originates from Scandinavia and North-West Russia ? two regions that were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium. Besides traditional categories of epigraphic sources, such as monumental inscriptions on durable materials, the volume is concerned with more casual inscriptions on less permanent materials. The first part of the book discusses a form of monumental epigraphic literacy manifested on Scandinavian rune stones, with a particular focus on their Christian connections. The second part examines exchanges between Christian culture and ephemeral products of epigraphic literacy, as expressed through Scandinavian rune sticks, East Slavonic birchbark documents and church graffiti. The essays look beyond the traditional sphere of parchment literacy and the Christian discourse of manuscript sources in order to explore the role of epigraphic literacy in the written vernacular cultures of Scandinavia and North-West Russia.‎

Bookseller reference : 44822

‎G. de Nie, K. F. Morrison, M. Mostert‎

‎Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages <br>Papers from "Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the Invisible, 400-1000" (Utrecht, 11-13 December 2003)‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2005 Hardcover. XII 546 p., 99 b/w ill. 11 colour ill., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503517599.‎

‎Limiting itself to the vital centuries when the late Roman West reshaped itself into a first "Europe," the conference explored the dominant conception of human nature in that era: that human existence was both body (in the visible world of material things) and soul (in the invisible world of spirit). This was a legacy of pre-Christian elements handed down from Greek philosophy and Hebrew Scriptures. Assimilating it to indigenous cultures in the Roman West, many alien to the ancient Mediterranean world, precipitated sea-changes in the understanding of human psychology. Ensuing frictions sparked extraordinary expressions of creativity in words and visual images. It also created dangerously subversive disequilibriums in the collective mentality within elites and between them and majority cultures. The papers in this volume investigate numerous configurations of a new culture taking shape in that volatile environment. They contribute to continuing debates about the cognitive co-ordination of words and pictorial images, and to cross-disciplinary dialogues in such disparate fields as art history, religious literature, mysticism, and cultural anthropology.‎

Bookseller reference : 44847

‎Corbellini‎

‎Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit, and Awakening the Passion‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2013 Hardcover. VI 308 p., 12 b/w ill. 15 colour ill., 1 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503545691.‎

‎This volume presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to religious reading and reading techniques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations. Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page.<br>- St Jerome, 384 AD<br>With these words, the Church Father Jerome exhorted the young Eustochium to find on the sacred page the spiritual nourishment that would give her the strength to live a life of chastity and to keep her monastic vows. His call to read does not stand alone. Books and reading have always played a pivotal role in early and medieval Christianity, often defined as ?a religion of the book?.<br>A second important stage in the development of the ?religion of the book? can be attested in the late Middle Ages, when religious reading was no longer the exclusive right of men and women living in solitude and concentrating on prayer and meditation. Changes in the religious landscape and the birth of new religious movements transformed the medieval town into a privileged area of religious activity. Increasing literacy opened the door to a new and wider public of lay readers. This seminal transformation in the late medieval cultural horizon saw the growing importance of the vernacular, the cultural and religious emancipation of the laity, and the increasing participation of lay people in religious life and activities.<br>This volume presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to religious reading and reading techniques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations.‎

Bookseller reference : 44870

‎J. Dubois‎

‎martyrologes du moyen age latin‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1978 Hardcover. 98 p., incl. 7 p. updating, 160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360263.‎

‎Les martyrologes sont des documents complexes qui melent etroitement des notices vieilles de plusieurs siecles a des notations contemporaines qui font echo a des faits recents.<br>L?essentiel du volume de la Typologie a ete de definir et d?analyser les martyrologes types, ceux qui peuvent etre consideres comme des ?uvres en majeure partie originale, et qui, en droit ou en fait, ont ete a l?origine de familles de manuscrits.‎

Bookseller reference : 44909

‎B.C. Bazan, J.W. Wippel, G. Fransen, D. Jacquart‎

‎questions disputees et les questions quodlibetiques dans les facultes de theologie, de droit et de medecine‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1985 Hardcover. 318 pages ., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360447.‎

Bookseller reference : 44971

‎M. Huglo‎

‎livres de chant liturgique‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1988 Hardcover. 144 pages., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: French, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360522.‎

Bookseller reference : 44983

‎A. Grabois‎

‎sources hebraiques medievales Vol. II. Les commentaires exegetiques.‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1993 Hardcover. 68 p., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503360669.‎

‎The medieval Hebrew exegesis in its entirety is indisputably a major achievement in the work of the Jewish sages. The exegesis, designed firstly to elucidate the meaning of biblical terms, whose language was not always understood by members of the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Christian and Muslim world, and then to annotate them for academic and practical purposes, played an important role in enhancing understanding of the sacred texts and adapting them to the needs of schools and communities. The author defines the genre of the exegetic commentary and characterises the methods employed: he traces the stages of its development across the different socio-cultural backgrounds of medieval Judaism; he draws up specific critical criteria; he follows the spread of the genre in time and space, weighs up modern editions and shows us the contribution these commentaries make to the history of the Middle Ages. At the end of the book is a bibliography detailing the principal commentaries and tables showing how the genre is chronologically, geographically and thematically divided. The book provides a critical introduction to a category of sources which has been too long neglected by historians.<br>Dans son ensemble, l'exegese hebraique medievale est sans doute une realisation majeure de l'oeuvre des sages juifs. Destinee a elucider le sens des termes bibliques, dont la langue n'etait plus toujours comprise par les membres des communautes dispersees dans les mondes chretien et musulman, et a les commenter a des fins academiques et pratiques, l'exegese joua un role important dans l'intelligence des textes sacres et leur adaptation aux besoins des ecoles et des communautes. L'auteur definit le genre du commentaire exegetique et caracterise les methodes que celui-ci met en oeuvre; il retrace les etapes de son evolution dans les differentes aires socio-culturelles du judaisme medieval; il formule des regles de critique specifiques; il suit la diffusion du genre dans l'espace et dans le temps, apprecie les editions modernes et met en lumiere l'apport de ces commentaires a l'histoire du moyen age. Une bibliographie des principaux commentaires et des tables visualisant la repartition chronologique, geographique et thematique du genre completent cet ouvrage qui introduit critiquement a une categorie de sources trop negligee par les historiens.‎

Bookseller reference : 44997

‎Peter the Venerable‎

‎Selected Letters Peter the Venerable‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1974 Softcover,. 115 p., 140 x 215 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888444523.‎

Bookseller reference : 45141

‎G.R. Wieland‎

‎Canterbury Hymnal‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1982 Hardcover. 144 p., 140 x 215 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888444622.‎

Bookseller reference : 45149

‎J. Ziolkowski‎

‎Miracles of the Virgin Mary, in Verse, Miracula sanctae Dei genetricis virginis Marie. versifice.‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1986 softcover. 111 p., 140 x 215 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888444677.‎

Bookseller reference : 45154

‎R. Rolle, N. Watson‎

‎Emendatio vitae. Orationes ad honorem nominis Ihesu‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 1995 Hardcover. 96 p., 140 x 215 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888444714.‎

‎Richard Rolle (d.1439) played a major part in the growth of affective spirituality in England during the fourteenth century. A prolific mystical writer who lived as a hermit and drew his literary inspiration from the great monastic authors of the twelfth century, he nonetheless anticipated many of the teachings of his slightly later contemporaries and his work looks forward to the later fourteenth-century world of increasing lay involvement in spiritual life. While his original audience may have consisted mainly of nuns and anchoresses (for writings in English) and monks and secular priests (for writings in Latin), many of his works can be read as popularizations of the traditions he inherited, and were ultimately designed to reach a much broader audience. The book contains editions of one work by Rolle, the Emendatio vitae , and one medieval compilation of extracts from his writings, the Orationes ad honorem nominis Ihesu. The Emendatio vitae is one of Rolle's late works and aims to adapt an originally specialized programme for spiritual transformation to the needs of general Christian readers; most of the last third of the work consists of an arrangement of passages from his earlier writings. This process of adaptation was taken up by others, who compiled works of "Rolleana" out of other such excerpted passages. The second work edited here, the Orationes ad honorem nominis Ihesu, is a member of this little-studied secondary canon, being made up of purple passages from several of Rolle's works, which it presents as a catena of devotions to the "holy name" of Jesus. Besides providing an anthology of Rolle's rich prose styles, the Orationes exemplifies the way in which passages of his writing could be detached from their original contexts and pressed into the service of an important late medieval devotion.‎

Bookseller reference : 45158

‎G. Dinkova-Bruun‎

‎Ancestry of Jesus, Excerpts from 'Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David filii Abraham' (Matthew 1:1?17) Excerpts from Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David filii Abraham (Matthew 1:1?17)‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2005 Hardcover. VIII 136 p., 140 x 215 mm, Languages: English, Latin, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888444783.‎

‎The work edited here (in linked excerpts), an anonymous composition in 1611 rhymed hexameters, is an example of the exegetical type of biblical versification that became popular from the eleventh century onwards. The poem, likely composed in the middle to late eleventh century, forms a lengthy commentary on the genealogy of Jesus as it is recorded in the first seventeen verses of the gospel of Matthew, but the poet ranges widely over the entire Bible for his material, frequently drawing on the Old Testament (especially the books of Genesis and Kings) for details about the characters dealt with. Some of the characters in the poem are not even mentioned in Matthew, e.g. the first three sons of the patriarch Jacob; and the poet tackles two of the problems presented by Matthew's genealogy: that without counting Jeconiah twice, the division of the forty-two generations of Jesus' ancestry into three sets of fourteen is incomplete, and that the father of Joseph (the husband of Mary) is called Jacob in Matthew but Heli in Luke. This poem's solution to the latter problem is particularly convoluted, and not based on any of the poet's known or presumed sources. In the manuscript edited here, Heidelberg, Universitatsbibliothek, MS. Salem IX 15, dating to the late eleventh or early twelfth century, the poem is accompanied by extensive interlinear and marginal glosses, which provide lexical, grammatical, and syntactical aids as well as summaries, interpretations, and comments on the text, thus giving much essential assistance to readers of verses that are frequently very difficult to construe. The Liber generationis was edited in full by Martin Rodel in 1999; the present edition is of extracts only (totalling 860 verses), preserving as well as possible the internal logic of the text, but reducing its length in order to make the work more useful for teaching purposes and more accessible to a student audience. The 860 verses are accompanied by all their glosses, printed on facing pages; extensive footnotes to both the poem and the glosses supply references to biblical and other sources, clarifications of the biblical narrative presented by the poet (especially when the medieval glosses do not provide sufficient help), and translation aids. The introduction to the edition discusses the content and organization of the poem, its rhyme and meter, the complexity and difficulty of its language and the unusual features of its style, the nature of the codex, and the glosses; the section on glosses includes examples of how the poem and glosses must be read together to form a complete understanding of the text. A select bibliography, textual notes, and three appendices - a list of all the biblical names mentioned in the text, a genealogical table, and a list of the interpretations given to the biblical names in the text - complete the volume. This book will be of interest to students and teachers of Medieval Latin, literary and linguistic scholars, all those interested in medieval glossed texts and the use of such texts as teaching tools, and scholars of biblical versification and exegesis in the Middle Ages.‎

Bookseller reference : 45164

‎A. B. Kraebel‎

‎Sermons of William of Newburgh‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2010 Hardcover. X 118 p., 140 x 215 mm, Languages: Latin, English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888444813.‎

‎This volume offers a first edition of three twelfth-century homiletic works by William of Newburgh, which together constitute a significant witness to the development of meditative theology as a vehicle of spirituality in England in the generations after Anselm. This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-century canon regular William of Newburgh: a homily on Luke 11.27 that explores in two successive sections the literal and typological exegesis of the passage, respectively; a sermon on the Trinity, structured as an extended exegesis of the Gloria Patri and the Benedicamus, and owing much to Augustinian notions of the Trinitarian structure of the human soul as an image of God; and a sermon on the martyrdom of St Alban which extrapolates from relatively brief references to the details of the narrative in order to explore the nature of martyrdom and the union of the martyr?s soul with Christ. Together they constitute a significant witness to the development of meditative theology as a vehicle of spirituality in England in the generations after Anselm. In keeping with the principles of the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series, the texts are edited from a single MS witness, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C. 31 in the case of the first two works and that of London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 73 in the case of the third, with judicious appeal to the other two MSS for variant readings only where the reading of the base MS is clearly defective. The volume concludes with an index of biblical citations.‎

Bookseller reference : 45167

‎A. Barratt‎

‎Anne Bulkeley and her Book, Fashioning Female Piety in Early Tudor England‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2009 Hardcover. XII 276 p., 6 b/w ill. 4 colour ill., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Latin, Middle English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503520711.‎

‎This study is focused on BL MS Harley 494, a small manuscript book which can be dated between 1532 and 1535 and which has many of the features of a preces privatae volume, or private prayer book. It contains prayers in English and Latin but also a number of brief devotional treatises in English. MS Harley 494 possesses two more features of interest: it belonged to a Hampshire widow, Anne Bulkeley (and possibly later to her daughter Anne, a nun at Amesbury Priory); and it emerged from a Birgittine textual community. Barratt edits and annotates the complete manuscript to provide an accessible and informative edition of this little known manuscript. However, Anne Bulkeley and her Book is not a conventional edition of a late Middle English text. Rather, Barratt carefully contextualizes the manuscript within its historical background just before the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and meticulously investigates the varied, and often unusual, sources of many of the individual items in the book. In addition, the discussion encompasses several related manuscripts (principally Lambeth Palace MS 3600 and the so-called Burnet Psalter (Aberdeen University Library MS 25)). This broad focus enables the volume to examine not only the evolution of the manuscript as a whole, but also to answer wider questions of its owner?s identity, her family connections, and her (and her book?s) place in literary, cultural, and religious history.‎

Bookseller reference : 45174