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Vie de saint Malchus, le moine captif

Century: 13

Hagiography

French

Dioc. Arras

INCIPIT

S. Jheroimes nos raconte et dit que cil qui ot es saintes escritures lo bien conter

EXPLICIT

qui vit et regne par tot les sicles des siecles. Amen.

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 fourth text from the 'Vies des sainz peres' - Commission:dedicated to Philippe I, count of Namur (Meyer, 1906: 281)

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CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Life of St. Malchus of Chalcis (+ 390). At a mature age Malchus fled to the Syrian dessert of Chalsis to escape a forced marriage. He became a monk and spent some time in a monastery. The moment he left the convent to visit his family, he was captured by a group of Bedouins and sold as a slave to the Arabs. Malchus' slave master forced him to marry one of the female slaves. Malchus accepted the forced commitment but refused to break his vow of chastity, which resulted in a marriage of convenience for seven years. Eventually, after seven years, Malchus and his wife managed to escape. Malchus resumed his life as a hermit while his wife entered a nearby nunnery.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Arras, Bibliothèque Municipale, 307
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 9225 (Link)
Carpentras, Bibliotheque Inguimbertine, 473 (Link)
London, British Library, Add. mss., 17275 (Link)
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 183
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 185

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 266-267 (fragment)

LITERATURE

BOSSUAT (R.), e.a. Dictionaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Parijs, 1992) 1501-1502
MEYER (P.), Versions en prose des Vies des Pères, in: Histoire Littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906)
MEYER (P.), Wauchier de Denain, in: Romania, XXXII (1903)
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) 550-551

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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer

Update:
2014-02-12 14:05:43