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.
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
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ABSTRACT
Polemical introduction to a collection of universal historical works, with an exposé on the utility of historiography for the monks.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
PERTZ (G.H.), in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores, 6 (Hannover, 1844) 289 (Fragment van de eerste zin) (fragment)
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
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