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Vie de saint Paul l'ermite

Century: 13

Hagiography

French

Dioc. Arras

INCIPIT

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EXPLICIT

qui sont, ensemblelor roiaumes. Ainsi define de monseignor saint Pol, et si commence aprèse de monseignor saint Anthoine.

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 first 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 St. Paul of Thebe (Paulus Thebaeus)(+ 341). He was the first anchorite who lived in the desert for ninety years in order to escape the persecutions of Emperor Decius.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Carpentras, Bibliotheque Inguimbertine, 473 (Link)

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 260-263 (fragment)

LITERATURE

BERESFORD (A.M.), 'Rereading Jerome in Spain in the Middle Ages: the Vida de Sant Paulo and the legend of St. Paul of Thebes', Mediaeval Studies 72 (2011) 1-37
BOSSUAT (R.), e.a. Dictionaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Parijs, 1992) 1501-1502
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 691
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) 693

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Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer

Update:
2014-02-12 14:08:58