Details

Subject(s)

• Abelard, Peter 1079-1142—Sermons [Browse]

Editor

• Engels, L. J. (Lodewijk Jozef) [Browse]
• Veire, Christine Vande [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Sermons [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• sermons [Browse]

Series

• Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis ; 286. [More in this series]
• Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio mediaeualis ; 286

Summary note

"The present volume provides the first critical edition of the sermons of Peter Abelard gathered by the author on behalf of the nuns of the Paraclete, as Abelard's dedicatory letter to Heloise makes clear. The collection contains 35 sermons 33 of which were edited 1616 by François d'Amboise and André Duchesne. Unfortunately the manuscript kept at the Sorbonne, used for the editio princeps, has disappeared. Only 6 out of the 33 sermons have survived, in three recently discovered manuscripts. A supplementary sermon (s. 34) of the same collection and a fragment of an extra sermon (against the Cistercians) turned up respectively in one of those manuscripts. Modern scholars have provided editions of the eight sermons that survived in the manuscripts. Well acquainted with Peter Abelard's writings skills and style, the editor investigated and compared the six sermons of the editio princeps that are also present in the manuscripts. After this profound research, he took the immense job of re-editing the entire collection. Where necessary he intervened on the basis of his knowledge of the language and ideas of Abelard."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

On title page, the name L.J. Engels is followed by the cross symbol, i.e. "deceased."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages xci-cxxv) and indexes.

Language note

Sermons in Latin; introduction in English.

ISBN

• 9782503577012 (hardcover)
• 2503577016 (hardcover)

OCLC

1223496427

International Article Number

• 9782503577012

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