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La vie de seint Martin
Century: 13
Hagiography
French
Dioc. Arras
INCIPIT
Inc. prol.: Mout doit on doucement et volentiers le bien oïr et entendre...
EXPLICIT
...A enviz fet bien, ce m'est vis / Qui le bien escoute a enviz.
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 - Date:early 13th century, first text from ' Li seint confessor' (Thompson, 1999: 23-24, 48-55) - Commission:probably commissioned by Phillip I, count of Namur (+ 1212) (Meyer, 1906: 281)
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ABSTRACT
Life of the Saint Matin of Tours. He was born in Pannonia (Hungary), son of a Roman magistrate and like his father predestined to a military career. According to legend he met a poor beggar at the entry of the city of Amiens, to whom he gave half of his cloak. At night Christ appeared to him, dressed in that piece of his mantle. Afther this, he converted and left the army to become a pupil of St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers. Near Poitiers, in Ligugé, he lived for several years as a hermit and founded there the monastery Saint Martin. Eventually, he was elected as Bishop of Tours around 371, where he founded a second monastery in 375.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Arras, Bibliothèque Municipale
Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Château de Chantilly
Genève, Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire
London, British Library
London, British Library
Oxford, Queen's College
Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 283-285, 286-287 (fragment)
THOMPSON (J.J.), Wauchier de Denain. La vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le beneoit confessor (Textes littéraires français, 508) (Genève, 1999) 23 (fragment)
LITERATURE
BOSSUAT (R.), e.a. Dictionaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Parijs, 1992) 1346, 1501-1502
BOSSUAT (R.), Manuel Bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Âge (Melun, 1951) nrs. 3335-3337
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. 17
Grundriss der Romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters, VIII/2 (Heidelberg, 1988) 31620
LECOY DE LA MARCHE A., Saint Martin (Tours, 1881)
MCKINLEY A.S., 'The first two centuries of Saint Martin of Tours', Early Medieval Europe 14 (2006) 173-200
MEYER (P.), 'Notice du Ms. Bibl. Nat. Fr. 6447 (Traduction de divers livres de la bible - légendes de saints)', Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et autres bibliothèques, 35 (1897) 435-510
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)
SÖDERHJELM W. (ed.), Das altfranzösiche Martinsleben des Peab Gastineau aus Tours (Helsingsfors, 1899)
STANCLIFFE C., St. Martin and his hagiographer : history and miracle in Sulpicius Severus. (Oxford, 1987)
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) 604-605
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Update:
2014-03-03 11:52:36
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