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E034

Epistola contra eos qui dicunt cronicas inanes seu inutiles

Century: 13-14

Pamphlets-Treaties

Latin

Dioc. Arras
County of Hainault

INCIPIT

Incipit epistola contra eos qui dicunt cronicas inanes seu inutiles...

EXPLICIT

...Et quod nullus, ut credo, delectatur fastidio, dabo pro posse operam ne fastidiosa sit lectio. Explicit epistola.

Anonymous: (NaSo E034)

Sex: M- Bio: monk from the abbey of Marchiennes.-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

EDITING

Location:Marchiennes - Date:1296-1306 - Commission: /

SIZE

539 woorden.

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Polemical introduction to a collection of universal historical works, with an exposé on the utility of historiography for the monks.

SOURCES

Augustinus van Hippo, De doctrina Christiana (Augustinus van Hippo, Epistola LXVIII of De doctrina Christiana (II,XL).)
Hugo van Fleury, Historia ecclesiastica (Hugo van Fleury, Historia ecclesiastica (tweede recensie van de proloog))

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale, 798 (Link)

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

PERTZ (G.H.), in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores, 6 (Hannover, 1844) 289 (fragment) (Link)
VANDERPUTTEN (S.), 'From sermon to science: monastic prologues from the southern Low Countries as witnesses of historical consciousness (10th-15th centuries)', in: W. Verbeke, et al. (eds.), Medieval Narrative Sources: A gateway into the medieval mind (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia Series I: Studia, 34) (Leuven, 2005) 37-54

LITERATURE

PERTZ (G.H.), in: MGH SS, 6 289
VANDERPUTTEN (S.), 'From sermon to science: monastic prologues from the southern Low Countries as witnesses of historical consciousness (10th-15th centuries)', in: W. Verbeke, et al. (eds.), Medieval Narrative Sources: A gateway into the medieval mind (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia Series I: Studia, 34) (Leuven, 2005) 37-54

LINKS

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Contributor:
Steven Vanderputten

Update:
2012-03-16 14:19:42