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B019

Relatio de inventione et elevatione sancti Bertini

Century: 11

Hagiography

Latin

Dioc. Thérouanne
County of Flanders

INCIPIT

(ep.1) Domino praestantissimo archiepiscopo Widoni frater Bovo, indignus abbas Sithiensis coenobii, inter benedictos benedicti. Dum in corpore sanctae Dei ecclesiae sub Christo...-- (ep.2) Wido Remorum archiepiscopus venerabili abbati Bovoni. Quoniam opera Domini narrare honorificum est, dignum ducimus tuae consulere inquisitioni, quam pro describenda...-- (ep.3) Glorioso Dei gratia domno Widoni archiepiscopo cum omni suae curae credito sanctae ecclesiae Remensis clero frater Bovo peccator, quem dicunt Sithiensium abbatem, beatam...-- Corpus: Cunctus namque sanctae Dei ecclesiae filiis habetur notissimum, civitatem Hierusalem quondam, sicut euangelica approbat assertio, misericorditer deflevisse...

EXPLICIT

...Quo allato et utriusque eius luminibus adhibito, confestim revelatis oculis clare videre coepit, atque super hoc nomine Domini benedicto, sospes hilarisque domum rediit.

Bovo Sithiensis

Sex: M- Bio: 1042-1065 abbot of the abbey of Saint Bertin at Saint-Omer (+1065)-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

EDITING

Location:Saint-Omer, Saint Bertin's abbey - Date:shortly after 1052 - Commission: /

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CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

History of the invention and elevation of St Bertinus' relics (+698) in the years 1050-1052. Bovo starts his text with an exchange of letters between himself, archbishop Wido of Reims and bishop Drogo of Thérouanne. This correspondence was meant to confer more authority to the story.

SOURCES

Adrevaldus Floriacensis, Historia translationis sancti Benedicti
Folcuinus, Gesta abbatum Sithiensium (Folcuinus Lobiensis, Gesta abbatum Sithiensium)
Vita Folcuini episcopi Morinensis (idem, Vita Folcuini episcopi Morinensis)

INFLUENCE

Simon Sithiensis, Gesta abbatum Sithiensium (Simon Sithiensis, Gesta abbatum Sithiensium (Narrative Sources S091).)

MANUSCRIPTS

Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque de l’Agglomération, 746 (Link)

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti, III (Parijs, 1672) 153-168
Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti, III (Venetië, 1734, 2e druk) 139-149 (Link) (Link)
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Belgii, V (Brussel, 1789) 651-663 (fragment) (Link)
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Sep., II (Parijs-Rome, 1868, 3e druk) 614-623 (Link)
HOLDER-EGGER (O.), in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores 15/1 (Hannover, 1887) 525-534 (Link)
MIGNE (J.-P.), Patrologia latina CXLVII (1854) 1141-1160 (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link)

LITERATURE

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Suppl. nr. 1296
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 3 101-103
DE MOREMBERT (T.), 'Bovo', in Dictionnaire de biographie française, 7 (Parijs, 1956) 86
DOLBEAU (F.), 'Le légendier de l'abbaye cistercienne de Clairmarais', Anallecta Bollandiana, 91 (1973) 283 nr. 20
HOLDER-EGGER (O.), in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores, 15/1 (Hannover, 1887) 524
POTTHAST (A.), Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi, Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des europäischen Mittelalters bis 1500, I (Berlin, 1896) 169, 1212-3
Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, II (Roma, 1962-) 570
UGÉ (K.), 'Relics as Tools of Power: The Eleventh-Century Inventio of St Bertin's Relics and the Assertion of Abbot Bovo's Authority', in: H. Teunis, A. Wareham en A.J.A. Bijsterveld, eds. Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power. Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages, International Medieval Research, 6 (Turnhout, 1999) 51-71
UGÉ (K.), Creating the Monastic Past in Medieval Flanders (York, 2005) 17-94 (72-90)
VAN 'T SPIJKER (I.), 'Gallia du Nord et de l'Ouest 950-1350', in: Hagiographies, II (Turnhout, 1996) 269

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Contributor:
Marit Gypen
Pieter-Jan De Grieck

Update:
2012-05-24 10:14:11