Medieval Exempla in Transition

Medieval Exempla in Transition

Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum and Its Readers

Smirnova, Victoria

Liturgical Press

01/2023

384

Mole

Inglês

9780879071301

15 a 20 dias

458

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Contents

Abbreviations ix
List of Images xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv

PART ONE: The White Monks and Their Stories
1. Cistercian Storytelling in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 3
2. Cistercian Exemplum Production in the Late Thirteenth through Fifteenth Centuries 21
3. Cistercian Manuscripts of the Dialogus miraculorum 35
4. Version B of the Dialogus miraculorum 55
5. Version C of the Dialogus miraculorum 71
6. Versions D and E of the Dialogus miraculorum 85
7. Cistercian Readers Interacting with the Dialogus miraculorum 91
8. The Dialogus miraculorum and Other Exempla Collections in Cistercian Libraries 101

PART TWO: Outside Cistercian Walls
9. Regular Canons as Readers of the Dialogus miraculorum 133
10. Benedictines, Carthusians, and Mendicant Friars 159

PART THREE: The Way into Modernity
11. Incunabulum Editions 193
12. Jacob Fischer's Edition (1591) and the Controversy over Miracles 211
13. Bertrand Tissier's Edition (1662) 229
14. The Dialogus miraculorum and Its Modern Reception: From Derision to Fascination 239
15. From the Twentieth Century to the Present Day: Academia and Popular Culture 255

Appendix I:
Cited Manuscripts of Caesarius's Dialogus miraculorum 275

Appendix II:
Summaries of Nine Exempla added to Version B of the Dialogus miraculorum 279

Appendix III:
Other Cited Manuscripts 285

Bibliography 289
General Index 325
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Cistercian Studies;Victoria Smirnova;Caesarius of Heisterbach;Dialogus miraculorum;Monasticism;Medieval;Exempla;White Monks;Benedictine;Demons;Manuscripts;Miracles;Sin