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Vita Joannis abbatis primi Cantipratensis
Century: 13
Hagiography
Latin
Dioc. Cambrai
County of Hainault
INCIPIT
Proloog: Reverendo in Christo patri Anselmo Dei gratia Cantipratensi abbati totique sancto conventui...-- Corpus: Iam ad occasum sui mundi termino appropinquante et diversis indiciis finem cunctis adesse clamate...
EXPLICIT
...Notandum autem quod in morte et post mortem pluribus amicis apparuit et gloriam sue glorificationis ostendit, que quidem scribere, et languore detentus, obmisi et prenimia plura.
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:Cantimpré - Date:begun in 1224-1228 and finished during the last years of his life - Commission:commissioned by Anselmus (9th abbot of Cantimpré, 1260-1305)
SIZE
31 fol.
CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Life of Johannes, founder and abbot of Cantimpré. The first book covers 1177-1183 (previous history of the abbey); the second book covers 1183-1193 (abbacy of Johannes); the third book discusses the period after the abbacy of Johannes.
SOURCES
Jacobus de Vitriaco, Vita Mariae Ogniacensis (Grote invloed van Jacobus de Vitriaco, Vita Mariae Ogniacensis.)
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
(English) NEWMAN (B.), ‘The Life of Abbot John of Cantimpré’, 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) 57-121
EDITIONS
GODDING (R.), Une oeuvre inédite de Thomas de Cantimpré. La 'Vita Ioannis Cantipratensis', in: Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, 76 (1981) 241-316 (257-316)
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
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
GODDING (R.) uitgave 241-256
HEENE (K.), 'Hagiography and gender: a tentative case-study on Thomas of Cantimpré', in: E. Renarad, et al. (eds.), Scribere sanctorum gesta: Recueil d'études d'hagiographie médiévale offert à Guy Phillippart (Hagiologia: Etudes sur la sainteté en Occident, 3) (Turnhout, 2005) 109-123
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)
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
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
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Véronique Lambert

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2013-08-08 11:05:06