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Vita sanctae Christinae mirabilis
Century: 13
Hagiography
Latin
Dioc. Liège
INCIPIT
Proloog: Memorabilis Christi v. Christinae vitam scribere disponentes...-- Corpus: Igitur memorabilis Christi v. Ch. ex oppido S. Trudonis in Hasbania...-- Toevoeging: Accidit autem post haec anno ab incarnatione Domini MCCXLIX...
EXPLICIT
...Hoc verbis multis, hoc fletibus, hoc eiulatibus... Amen.-- Toevoeging: ...ad domum suam propriis viribus repedavit
Sex: M- Bio: CSA and from c.1232 on OP. Was presumably born in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw near Brussels c.1201. He was a Victorine in the abbey of Cantimpré near Cambrai, but he entered the dominican order in Louvain in 1232 and was appointed as the subprior of the dominican convent in Louvain. The exact date of his death is unknown. B. DE JONGHE suggests 1263, 1275 or 1280; W.A. VAN DER VET believes it could be 1270-1272.-Status author (order, function): Augustinian Canons (CSA); Dominican Friars (OP)
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ABSTRACT
Life of St Christina of St Trond (+1224).
SOURCES
Jacobus de Vitriaco, Vita Mariae Ogniacensis (Getuigenissen van vrienden en kennissen uit Sint-Truiden. Invloed van Jacobus de Vitriaco, Vita Mariae Ogniacensis.)
INFLUENCE
Leven van Christina de Wonderbare
Broeder Geraert, Leven van Sinte Christina de Wonderbare
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
(English) KING (M.H.), NEWMAN (B.), ‘The Life of Christina the Astonishing’, in: B. Newman, ed. Thomas of Cantimpré: The Collected Saints’ Lives. Abbot John of Cantimpré, Christina the Astonishing, Margaret of Ypres, and Lutgard of Aywières (Turnhout, 2008) 127-157
(English) KING (M.H.), The Life of Christina Mirabilis by Thomas de Cantimpré (Toronto, 1986) 10-41.
(Middle Dutch) Broeder Geraert, 'Leven van Sinte Christina de Wonderbare'
(Middle Dutch) DESCHAMPS (J.), ed. 'Een Middelnederlandse prozavertaling van de 'Vita sanctae Christinae Mirabilis' van Thomas van Cantimpré', Jaarboek van de Federatie der Geschied- en Oudheidkundige kringen in Limburg, 30 (1975) 69-103
(Middle English) BROWN (J.N.), ed. Three Women of Liège. A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d’Oignies (Turnhout, 2008) 51-84
(Middle English) HORSTMANN (C.), ed. 'The Lyfe of Seinte Christin the Meruelous', in: Anglia, 8 (1885) 102-196)
EDITIONS
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Jul., V (1727) 650-660 (Link)
GONON(US) (B.), Vitae et Sententiae Patrum Occidentis, Lyon, 1625 327-333
SCHUURMANS (I.) (ed.) De Latijnse en Middelnederlandse levensbeschrijvingen van Christina de Wonderbare (+1224): synoptische uitgave en kritisch commentaar (Onuitgegeven licentiaatsverhandeling, Leuven, 1989)
SURIUS (L.), De probatis sanctorum historiis, 3 (Köln, 1572) 778-789
SURIUS (L.), De probatis sanctorum historiis, 3 (Köln, 1579) 888-899
SURIUS (L.), De probatis sanctorum historiis, 6 (Köln, 1618) 319-324
LITERATURE
APPELMANS (J.), 'Van Thomas' bijen tot Jans Teesteye. De Brabantse historiografen en hun didactische bekommernis (dertiende en veertiende eeuw)', in: R. Bauer e.a., eds. In de voetsporen van Jacob van Maerlant. Liber amicorum Raf De Keyser (Leuven, 2002) 258-283
AXTERS (G.), 'Bijdragen tot een bibliographie van de Nederlandsch Dominikaansche vroomheid, I', in: Ons Geestelijk Erf, 6 (1932) 15-24
AXTERS (G.), in: Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, 2 (1966) 865-868
BARRAT (A.), 'Undutiful daughters and metaphorical mothers among the beguines', in: J. Dor, L. Johnson, J. Wogan-Browne, eds. New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and their Impact (Turnhout, 1999) 81-104
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1746-47
BROWN (J.N.), Three Women of Liège. A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d’Oignies (Turnhout, 2008) 1-25, 51-84, 219-245
COAKLEY (J.), ‘Women’s Textual Authority and the Collaboration of Clerics’, in: A. Minnis, R. Voaden, eds. Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition c. 1100- c. 1500 (Turnhout, 2010) 83-104 (86)
DE VOCHT (H.), in: Biographie Nationale, XXV (1930-32) 28-34
DEBROUX (A.), Thomas de Cantimpré (v. 1200-1270). L'homme et son oeuvre écrite. Essai de Biographie (onuitgegeven licentiaatsverhandeling U.C.L.) (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1979)
Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Paris, 1992) 1436-1438
ELLIOTT (D.), ‘Flesh and Spirit: The Female Body’, in: A. Minnis, R. Voaden, eds. Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition c. 1100- c. 1500 (Turnhout, 2010) 13-46 (24)
FAESEN (R.), Begeerte in het werk van Hadewijch (Leuven, 2000) 178-185
FOLKERTS (S.), ‘Een vrome vrouw als rolmodel voor geestelijken: Christina de Wonderbare van Sint-Truiden’, in: Ons Geestelijk Erf, 78 (2004) 5-22
FOLKERTS (S.), ‘Vrome leken en foute priesters’, Madoc, 19 (2005) 225-233 (228-229, 232-233)
FOLKERTS (S.), Voorbeeld op schrift. De overlevering en toe-eigening van de vita van Christina Mirabilis in de late middeleeuwen (Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen, 124) (Hilversum, 2010)
HEENE (K.), 'Petrus Pictor en Thomas Cantimpratensis. Een impressie van de Mediolatijnse letterkunde in de Nederlanden', in: R. Jansen-Sieben, et al. (eds.), Medioneerlandistiek. Een inleiding tot de Middelnederlandse letterkunde (Hilversum, 2000) 53-67
HORSTMANN (C.), 'Prosalegende: die Legenden des Ms. Douce 14: The Lyfe of Seinte Christin the Meruelous', Anglia 8 (1885) 102-196
KAUFFMANN, Thomas van Chantimpré (Köln, 1899)
KING (M.H.), The Holy Women of Liège. A Bibliography (Toronto, 1999) 13-15
KING (M.H.), The Life of Christina Mirabilis by Thomas de Cantimpré (Toronto, 1986) 40061
LAEMERS (J.), ‘Christina Mirabilis and the Scholastic Notion of Truth’, in: Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique, 105 (2010) 5-26
LEE (B.), 'Keeping body and spirit together: the volatile life of St Christina the Marvellous.', Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies / Suider-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Middeleeuse en Renaissancestudies, 11 (2001), 39-50
MULDER-BAKKER (A.B.), 'The prime of their lives. Women and age, wisdom and religious careers in Northern Europe', DOR (J.), JOHNSON (L.) en WOGAN-BROWNE (J.) (red.), New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and their Impact (Turnhout, 1999) 215-236
NEWMAN (B.), 'Devout women and demoniacs in the world of Thomas of Cantimpré', in: J. Dor, L. Johnson, J. Wogan-Browne, eds. New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and their Impact (Turnhout, 1999) 35-60
NEWMAN (B.), 'Possessed by the Spirit. Devout Women, Demoniacs, and the Apostolic Life in the Thirteenth Century', in: Speculum, 73 (1998) 733-770
NEWMAN (B.), ‘Introduction’, in: B. Newman, ed. Thomas of Cantimpré: The Collected Saints’ Lives. Abbot John of Cantimpré, Christina the Astonishing, Margaret of Ypres, and Lutgard of Aywières (Turnhout, 2008) 3-51
NIMAL (H.), Réplique à M. Kurth et aux Analecta Bollandiana au sujet de La Vie de Sainte Christine l'Admirable, est-elle authentique? (Liège, 1900)
NIMAL (H.), Vie de Sainte Christine l'Admirable, est-elle authentique; suivi d'un mot de réponse aux Archives Belges (Liège, 1900)
PASSENIER (A.), 'The life of Christina Mirabilis: miracles and the construction of marginality', in: A.-M. Korte (ed.), Women and Miracle Stories (Leiden, 2001) 145-178
ROISIN (S.), 'La méthode hagiografique de Thomas de Cantimpré', in: Miscellanea historica in honorem Alberti de Meyer, I (Leuven, Brussel, 1945) 546-557
ROUKIS-STERN (C.), 'A Tale of Two Dioceses: Prologues as Letters in the Vitae Authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré', in: K.A. Smith, S. Wells eds. Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe : gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom (Leiden, 2009) 33-48
SCHUURMANS (I.), De Latijnse en Middelnederlandse levensbeschrijvingen van Christina de Wonderbare (+1224): synoptische uitgave en kritisch commentaar (Onuitgegeven licentiaatsverhandeling, Leuven, 1989)
SIMONS (W.), 'Reading a saint's body: rapture and bodily movement in the vitae of thirteenth-century beguines', in: S. Kay, M. Rubin, eds. Framing medieval bodies (Manchester/New York, 1994) 44927
SIMONS (W.), ‘Holy Women of the Low Countries: A Survey’, in: A. Minnis, R. Voaden, eds. Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition c. 1100- c. 1500 (Turnhout, 2010) 625-662 (passim)
SIMONS (W.), Cities of Ladies. Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 (Philadelphia, 2001) passim
SWEETMAN (R.), 'Christine of Saint-Trond's preaching apostolate: Thomas of Cantimpré's Hagiographical Method Revisited', in: Vox Benedictina, 60 (1992) 67-97
SWEETMAN (R.), ‘Thomas of Cantimpré, Mulieres Religiosae, and Purgatorial Piety: Hagiographical Vitae and the Beguine ‘Voice’’, in: J. Brown, W.P. Stoneman, eds. A Distinct Voice. Medieval Studies in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle, O.P. (Notre Dame, 1997) 606-628
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2013-08-08 11:00:54