Opus arduum valde : a Wycliffite commentary on the Book of Revelation / [edited] by Romolo Cegna, Christoph Galle, Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele.

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Book
Language
  • English
  • Latin
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Description
xi, 691 pages ; 25 cm.

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    Summary note
    "The Opus arduum valde is a Latin commentary on the Book of Revelation, written in England by an unknown scholarly author in the years 1389-1390. The book originated from the early Wycliffite movement and reflects its experience of persecution in apocalyptic terms. In England it soon fell into oblivion, but was adopted by radical exponents of the fifteenth-century Bohemian Hussites. In the sixteenth century Luther obtained a copy of the Opus arduum valde which he had printed in Wittenberg with his own preface in 1528. This remarkable document of religious dissent in late medieval Europe, highly regarded in Lollard and Hussite studies, is now for the first time made available in a critical edition"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-672) and indexes.
    Language note
    Introduction in English followed by the text of the Opus arduum valde in Latin; includes a Latin introduction by Martin Luther.
    Contents
    • Introduction: The Opus arduum valde: Origin
    • Character
    • Tradition
    • Edition
    • 1. Opus arduum valde: the title
    • 2. The author
    • 3. The current situation
    • 4. Date and place of writing
    • 5. Sources
    • 6. The Prologues
    • 7. Content and main aspects
    • 8. The theological profile of the OAV
    • 9. An attempt to identify the author
    • 10. The OAV in Bohemia
    • 11. The manuscripts
    • 12. Reconstruction of the history of transmission and formation of a stemma codicum
    • 13. The edition by Martin Luther
    • 14. Editorial principles
    • Opus arduum valde.
    ISBN
    • 9789004362932 (hardcover)
    • 9004362932 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2021018939
    OCLC
    1241441437
    Other standard number
    • 40030646674
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