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Vie de saint Antoine

Century: 13

Hagiography

French

Dioc. Arras

INCIPIT

Mesire sainz Anthoines fu nez d'Egypte, si ot un mult haut home a pere et mult haute dame a mere, et de grant religion plainne...

EXPLICIT

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Wauchier de Denain, Waulchier de Denain

Sex: M- Bio: In the beginning of the 13th century his works were commissioned by Philip, count of Namur (+1212), and of Joanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders and Hainault (+1244); he translated several Latin works. Wauchier de Denain was clerc at the court of Roger IV, châtelain of Lille (1st third of the 13th century). (NaSo 611): For the adscription to Wauchier de Denain: see Raynaud de Lage, Ruby en De Visser-Van Terwisga.-Status author (order, function):

EDITING

Location:Denain (?), in the vicinity of St.Amand and Valenciennes (Thompson, 1999: 48-55) - Date:early 13th century, before 1212 (Szkilnik, 1993: 8), the second text from the 'Vies des sainz peres' - Commission:dedicated to Philippe I, count of Namur (Meyer, 1906a: 281)

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ABSTRACT

Life of saint Anthony the Great of Egypt (+ 356). Anthony lived as a hermit in the desert of Thebe. He failed in his attempt to become a martyr but underwent various temptations of the devil during his whole life. Demons in various disguises, such as Satan in the form of a beautiful woman or a pig, tried to lead him astray. According to tradition, the saint lived most of his life in a burial cave in the desert. However, around 310, Antony went to Alexandria to surrender himself voluntarily to emperor Maximinus Daia with the aim to die a martyr’s death. Nevertheless the emperor didn’t harm him. Anthony returned to the desert and lived an ascetic life even harsher and stricter than before.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Arras, Bibliothèque Municipale, 307
Carpentras, Bibliotheque Inguimbertine, 473 (Link)
Dublin, Trinity College, B 2.8
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Nouv. acq. fr. 23686

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

MEYER (P.), Versions en prose des Vies des Pères, in: Histoire Littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 263-265 (fragment)

LITERATURE

BOSSUAT (R.), e.a. Dictionaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Parijs, 1992) 1501-1502
BRUNEL-LOBRICHON (G.), e.a., 'L'hagiographie de langue française sur le continent IXe-XVe siècle', in: G. Philippart (ed.), Corpus christianorum. Hagiographies : Histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire en Occident des origines à 1550, II (Turnhout, 1996) 330, nr. 18
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 263-265
SZKILNIK (M.), L'histoire des moines d'Egypte suivie de la vie de saint Paul le Simple. Edition critique (Textes littéraires français, 427) (Genève, 1993)
SZKILNIK (M.), Le choix de Wauchier de Denain. Ecrire en vers, écrire en prose, in: Romania, CVII (1986)
THOMPSON (J. J.), Wauchier de Denain. La vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le beneoit confessor (Textes littéraires français, 508) (Genève, 1999)
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 79-80

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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer

Update:
2014-02-13 13:32:45