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G131
Vita Arnulfi conversi Villariensis
Century: 13
Hagiography
Latin
Dioc. Liège
Duchy of Brabant
INCIPIT
Prologus: Sicut in germinibus herbarum atque lignorum, quae terra producit non una species, nec unum in omnibus genus est; sed singula quaeque in sui generis forma, et...-- Corpus: Fuit in episcopatu Cameracensi, in oppido quodam verae Brabantiae, quod Bruxella dicitur, adolescens quidam, Arnulfus nomine, quem a mediocribus parentibus...
EXPLICIT
(...venit in hunc mundum, ut vitam habeamus et abundantius habeamus:) cui est cum Patre et Spiritu sancto gloria, honor, et imperium, per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.
Sex: M- Bio: monk, ca.1230 cantor and probably also librarian of the abbey of Villers (13de eeuw).-Status author (order, function): Cistercian Monks (SOCist)
EDITING
Location:Abbey of Villers - Date:1st red. after 1228; 2nd red. before 1236 (RFHMA) - Commission: /
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ABSTRACT
Life of Arnulfus, lay brother of the abbey of Villers (?c. 1180/+June 30th 1228). The first book (10 cap.) deals with Arnulfus' austerity and torments; the second book (21 cap.) deals with his miracles and prophecies.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
Gesta sanctorum Villariensium ((contains a summary of the Vita Arnulfi - see also NaSo 447))
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
(English) CAWLEY (M.), Send me God: the lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, nun of La Ramée, Arnulf, lay brother of Villers, and Abundus, monk of Villers (Turnhout/Cheltenham, 2003) 123-198 (+ 199-205)
EDITIONS
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Jun., V (1709) 608-631 (Link)
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Jun., VII (1867, 3e druk) 558-579 (Link)
MOSCHUS (F.), Beatorum Arnulphi Villariensis et Simonis Alnensis... vitae, Atrebati, 1600 13-59 (fragment)
LITERATURE
ACHTEN (G.), Die theologischen lateinischen Handschriften in Quarto der Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, Teil 1: Ms. theol. lat. qu. 141-266 (Wiesbaden, 1979) 128-129
AXTERS (S.), Geschiedenis van de vroomheid in de Nederlanden, 1: De vroomheid tot rond het jaar 1300 (Antwerpen, 1950) 214-216, 219, 434
BALAU (S.), Les sources de l'histoire de Liège au Moyen Age, Étude critique (Bruxelles, 1903) 437-438
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 713
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 2, 452
CAWLEY (M.), 'Four abbots of the golden age of Villers', Cistercian Studies Quarterly: An International Review of Monastic and Contemplative Spirituality, 27/4 (1992) 299-327
CAWLEY (M.), ‘Introduction to the lives’, in: M. Cawley, Send me God: the lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, nun of La Ramée, Arnulf, lay brother of Villers, and Abundus, monk of Villers (Turnhout/Cheltenham, 2003) 1-26 (1-8, 12-18, 20-24)
D'HAENENS (A.), 'Goswin ou Gossuin de Bossut', in: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 21 (Paris, 1986) 847-848
DE MOREAU (E.), L'abbaye de Villers-en-Brabant aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles. Etude d'histoire religieuse et économique. Suivie d'une notice archéologique, Université de Louvain. Recueil de travaux publiés par les membres des conférences d'histoire et de philologie, 21 (Brussel, 1909) XXVII-XXXI, 90-91, 101-102
DELAISSÉ (E.), ‘Le nombre de bienheureux á Villers-en-Brabant aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles’, Revue bénédictine, 117 (2007) 383-401 (passim)
DELAISSÉ (E.), ‘Relations des saints religieux de Villers avec les membres de leur communauté’, Collectanea Cisterciensia, 69 (2007) 155-163 (passim)
DIMIER (A.), 'Gosuin de Bossut', in: E. Brouette, A. Dimier, E. Manning, eds. Dictionnaire des auteurs cisterciens (Tome I: A-K), Documentation cistercienne, 16/1 (Rochefort, 1975) 304-305
FOLKERTS (S.), ‘Vrome leken en foute priesters’, Madoc, 19 (2005) 225-233 (231-233)
Histoire littéraire de la France, 18, 68-69
McGUIRE (B.P.), 'Self-Denial and Self-Assertion in Arnulf of Villers', Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 28 (1994) 241-259
MOLINIER (A.), Les Sources de l'histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'en 1789 (4 vols.) (Paris, 1902-1904) nr. 1822
Monasticon belge, III/2 (Bruges and Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890-1993) 342, 355
NEWMAN (B.), ‘Goswin of Villers and the Visionary Network’, in: M. Cawley, inl. en vert. Send me God: the lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, nun of La Ramée, Arnulf, lay brother of Villers, and Abundus, monk of Villers (Turnhout/Cheltenham, 2003) XXIX-XLVII
NEWMAN (M.), Crucified by the Virtues. Laybrothers and Women in Thirteenth-century Cistercian Saints' Lives', in: in S. Farmer, C. Pasternack, eds., Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages (Minneapolis, 2003) 182-209 189-196
NOELL (B.), ‘Expectation and unrest among Cistercian lay brothers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries’, Journal of Medieval History, 32 (2006) 253-274 (263-264)
POTTHAST (A.), Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi, Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des europäischen Mittelalters bis 1500, I (Berlin, 1896) 537, 1182
POTTHAST (A.), Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, V (Roma, 1962-) 190-191
REUSENS (E.-H.-J.), 'Goswin de Bossut', in: Biographie Nationale, 8 (Brussel, 1884-5) 145-146
ROISIN (S.), L'hagiographie cistercienne dans la dioc�se de Li�ge au XIIIe si�cle, Universit� de Louvain. Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie, 3e s�rie, 27 (Leuven-Brussel, 1947) 32-34, 36-38 (met uitg. exc.: 36-37)
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