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Medieval Exempla in Transition

Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum and Its Readers

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Victoria Smirnova, Victoria, Smirnova

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This study follows the transmission and reception of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (1219–1223), one of the most compelling and successful Cistercian collections of miracles and memorable events, from the Middle Ages to the present day. It ranges across different media and within different interpretive communities and includes brief summaries of a number of the exempla.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-01-07
Mått140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt425 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCistercian Studies Series
Antal sidor384
FörlagLiturgical Press
ISBN9780879071301

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FILLIN "" Victoria Smirnova holds a doctoral degree in medieval Latin literature from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2006) and is currently a research fellow in the Bavarian State Library (Munich). She specializes in medieval sermons and exempla with particular emphasis on Caesarius of Heisterbach, to whose works she has dedicated numerous articles. She is also the principal editor of the collection of essays in The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond (2015).

ContentsAbbreviations ixList of Images xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction xvPART ONE: The White Monks and Their Stories1. Cistercian Storytelling in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 32. Cistercian Exemplum Production in the Late Thirteenth through Fifteenth Centuries 213. Cistercian Manuscripts of the Dialogus miraculorum 354. Version B of the Dialogus miraculorum 555. Version C of the Dialogus miraculorum 716. Versions D and E of the Dialogus miraculorum 857. Cistercian Readers Interacting with the Dialogus miraculorum 918. The Dialogus miraculorum and Other Exempla Collections in Cistercian Libraries 101PART TWO: Outside Cistercian Walls9. Regular Canons as Readers of the Dialogus miraculorum 13310. Benedictines, Carthusians, and Mendicant Friars 159 PART THREE: The Way into Modernity11. Incunabulum Editions 19312. Jacob Fischer’s Edition (1591) and the Controversy over Miracles 21113. Bertrand Tissier’s Edition (1662) 22914. The Dialogus miraculorum and Its Modern Reception: From Derision to Fascination 23915. From the Twentieth Century to the Present Day: Academia and Popular Culture 255Appendix I:Cited Manuscripts of Caesarius’s Dialogus miraculorum 275Appendix II:Summaries of Nine Exempla added to Version B of the Dialogus miraculorum 279Appendix III:Other Cited Manuscripts 285Bibliography 289General Index 325

"Victoria Smirnova has written the story of the pivotal exempla collection of the Middle Ages. By contrast to Caesarius' very long book of 300,000 words, her book is concise but comprehensive. She tells the fascinating story of exempla before and after Caesarius Dialogue and traces the book's Cistercian roots and reception by Cistercians and others from Caesarius' time to our own. For anyone interested in exempla, Cistercians, or Caesarius, this book is required reading."Hugh Feiss, OSB