T031
Vita Margaretae
Vita Margarete de Ypris
Century: 13
Hagiography
Latin
INCIPIT
Proloog: Amico et fratri... Sigero... Tua fama, carissime, frequenter excitatus...-- Corpus: In villa Flandriae, quae dicitur Ipris, fuit puella...
EXPLICIT
...Hic finis vitae et libri... Orent ergo pro me...
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)
EDITING
Location: / - Date:after 1237 - Commission: /
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ABSTRACT
Life of Margaret of Ypres (1237).
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
(English) KING (M;H.), The Life of Margaret of Ypres by Thomas of Cantimpré (Toronto, 1990).
(English) KING (M.H.), NEWMAN (B.), ‘The Life of Margaret of Ypres’, 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) 163-213
(Middle German) 'Dis ist sant Margreden leben von dem dorffe das genant ist ypris in Flandern' (Tubingen, Universitätsbibliothek (olim Berlijn, Preuss. Staatsbibl., Germ. Oct. 69))
EDITIONS
CHOQUET(IUS) (H.), Sancti Belgi Ordinis Praedicatorum, Dowaai, 1618 , 144-200
MEERSSEMAN (G. G.), 'Les Frères Prêcheurs et le mouvement dévot en Flandre au XIIIe s.', in: Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 18 (1948) 106-130
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 5319
COAKLEY (J.), 'Friars as Confidants of Holy Women in Medieval Dominican Hagiography', in: R. BLUMENFELD-KOSINSKI en T. SZELL (red.) Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe (Ithaca, 1991) 222-246 (225-228)
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 (84, 88-89)
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
GLENTE (K.), 'Vite di mistiche dal punto di vista maschile e femminile. Un confronto tra Tommaso di Cantimpré e Caterina di Unterlinden', in: M. Vannini e.a. (red.), Movimento religioso e mistica femminile nel Medioevo (Cinisello Balsamo, 1993) 284-297
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
KAUFFMANN, Thomas van Chantimpré (Köln, 1899)
KING (M.H.), 'The Life of Margaret of Ypres by Thomas de Cantimpré', in: Vox benedictina, 7 (1990) 159-185
McGINN (B.), The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism, 1200-1350 (New York, 1998) 162-164
MEERSSEMAN (G.), 'Les frères prêcheurs et le mouvement dévot en Flandre au XIIIe siècle', in: Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 18 (1948) 106-130
MINNIS (A.), ‘Religious Roles: Public and Private’, in: A. Minnis, R. Voaden, eds. Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition c. 1100- c. 1500 (Turnhout, 2010) 47-81 (64, 67)
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
OLIVER (J.), '"Je pecherise renc grasces a vos": Some French Devotional Texts in Beguine Psalters', in: P.R. MONKS en D.D.R. OWEN (red.) Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature and Translation. Studies for Keith Val Sinclair (Leiden, 1994) 248-262
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
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.), TRIO (P.), ‘Begijnen, begarden en tertiarissen in het middeleeuwse Ieper’, in: Jaarboek voor middeleeuwse geschiedenis, 4 (2001) 118-167 (124-125, 143, 150-151)
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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Pieter-Jan De Grieck
Véronique Lambert
Update:
2013-08-08 11:01:27