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De institutione clericorum tractatus sex: de dignitate clericorum, de scientia clericorum, de iustitia clericorum, de continentia clericorum, de oboedientia clericorum, de silentio clericorum
Century: 12
Pamphlets-Treaties
Latin
Dioc. Cambrai
County of Hainault
INCIPIT
Proloog: Si in praemissis responsionibus Deo indigui adiutore: in hac, quae sequitur, video illum multo amplius necessarium mihi fore...-- Corpus: Quaeritis, fratres, cum in ecclesia omnis ordo viventium magnae sit sanctitatis, si teneat unusquisque praescriptae regulam veritatis...
EXPLICIT
(de digniate clericorum:) ...quia decet eum scientia et iustitia informari, et eisdem alios informare. (de silentio clericorum:) ...incorruptam eam et sibi a Patre luminum promissam, immortalitate donatus homo, secure possidebit.
Sex: M- Bio: Born about 1100 in Harvengt, probably from modest descent. Already as a child he was entrusted to a bishop for his education, probably in Cambrai. He was prior of the abbey of Bonne-Espérance (OPraem) c.1130. A dispute with Bernard of Clairvaux forced his to move to another abbey (which is not exactly known). He returned after about two years (about 1151). At the end of 1156 or in 1157 he became the abbot, and at the end of 1182 he resigned from his functions as an abbot and died in april 1183.-Status author (order, function): Premonstratensian Canons (OPraem)
EDITING
Location: / - Date:12th century - Commission: /
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ABSTRACT
This moralizing tract originates in the 12th century struggle between clerics and monks. Philip investigates the position of clercs and monks. Clercs are understood as regular canons. The author is one of the first to spiritualize priesthood.
SOURCES
Gregorius Magnus
Horatius
Ovidius
Persius
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
ANTRY (T.J.), in: Analecta Praemonstratensia 50 (1974) 273 (Aankondiging nieuwe editie van het geheel)
CHAMART (N.), ed. D. Philippi abbatis Bonae-Spei opera (Paris/Douai, 1621) 385-691
MIGNE (J.-P.), Patrologia latina, CCIII (Paris, 1855) 665-1206 (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link)
LITERATURE
BACKMUND (N.), Die mittelalterlichen Geschichtsschreiber des Prämonstratenserordens (Averbode, 1972) 206-209
BERLIÈRE (U.), 'Philippe de Harvengt, abbé de Bonne-Espérance. VI. Ecrits hagiographiques, poésies, ouvrages supposés',Revue Bénédictine, 9 (1892) 24-31, 69-77, 130-136
Catholicisme 11 (R. Darricau, 1986) 186-187
Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique, 12/1 (E. Mikkers, 1984) 1297-1302
Index scriptorum III/2, 189-194
LEINSLE (U.G.), ‘ “Deo militans clericus”- Rittertum und Krieg im Werk Phillips von Harvengt’, Analecta Praemonstratensia, 77 (2001) 94-120 (passim)
Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche VIII (T. Gerits, 1963) 450
McGINN (B.), 'Teste David cum Sibylla: The Significance of the Sibylline Tradition in the Middle Ages', in: Women of the Medieval World. Essays in Honor of J.H. Mundy, cur. J. Kirshner, S.F. Wemple (Oxford, 1985) 7-35 (19)
Monasticon belge, I (Bruges and Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890-1993) 395-396
NEGRI (F.), 'Philippe de Harveng, abbé de Bonne-Espérance (XIIe siècle), et la conduite des clercs de son temps', in: D.-M. Dauzet, M. Plouvier (eds.), Abbatiat et abbés dans l’ordre de Prémontré (Bibliotheca Victorina, 17) (Turnhout, 2005) 257-274
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 11 (J.C. Willke, 1967) 275
POTTHAST (A.), Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, IX (Roma, 1962-) 208-209
ROBY (D.), 'Philip of Harvengt's Contribution to the Question of Passage from one Religious Order to Another', in: Analecta Praemonstratensia, 49 (1973) 69-100
SIJEN (G.P.), 'Les oeuvres de Philippe de Harveng, abbé de Bonne Espérance', Analecta Praemonstratensia, 15 (1939) 129-66
SIJEN (G.P.), 'Philippe de Harveng, abbé de Bonne Espérance. Sa biographie', Analecta Praemonstratensia, 14 (1938) 38-52
VETRI (M.), 'L'ideale di vita sacerdotale presso Filippo de Harvengt', in: Analecta Praemonstratensia, 37 (1961) 5-30, 177-231
WEYNS (N.J.), 'A propos des Instrucions pour les clercs (De institutione clericorum) de Philippe de Harveng', in: Analecta Praemonstratensia, 53 (1977) 71-79
WEYNS (N.J.), 'Filips van Harveng', in: Nieuw Biografisch Woordenboek, 4 (1970) 329-340
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Martine De Reu

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2012-09-12 16:04:44