Achim Wesjohann wrote:
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> Another important title:
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> Simon Tugwell, Notes on the Life of St. Dominic, in: Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, vol. 65-68 (1995-1998) !
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> [Sorry, for not introducing myself before: My name is Achim Wesjohann. I work at the research project "Institutionelle Strukturen religiöser Orden im Mittelalter" (especially about historiography of medieval mendicants) in Dresden, Germany]
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> Achim Wesjohann, MA
> Technische Universität Dresden
> Sonderforschungsbereich 537 "Institutionalität und Geschichtlichkeit"
> Teilprojekt C "Institutionelle Strukturen religiöser Orden im Mittelalter"
> 01062 Dresden
> http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~sfb537
Welcome, Arnim, and thanks, Tom, for the tip on Canetti, I'll look him
up ASAP. It appears that "research on St. Dominic" means quoting the
latest hits--and I hasten to add that my (very limited) research on St.
Dominic involved reading manuscripts at the Casanatense looking for
information on the origins of the Dominicans in Calabria. Since,
however, we are dealing with contemporary perceptions of St. Dominic, it
may be usefu to point out that some of the questions raised by Tugwell
in his "Notes" in Archivum 1998 had already been answered by Leonard E.
Boyle, O.P. in "The Death of St. Dominic in 1221: an anniversary note,"
Doctrine and Life 21 (1971) 438-46. Jordan was concerned with the ideal
('Apostolic Preaching' Boyle 439) that inspired St. Dominic, rather than
with the life of the founder or the early history of the Order. The
interesting point (in my view) is that such ideal did not come from
Dominic, but from his bishop. The questions to be pondered, then, are:
where did the stimulus for the O.P. come from, and what is the O.P. all
about? If these are, as Boyle maintained, the fundamental questions,
then at least one of the issues discussed by Tugwell - whether Jordan's
libellus is a biography of St. Dominic or an exordium - becomes
secondary, if not irrelevant; and Dominic's "successive missionary
interests" (Tugwell 1998 page 5) should also be seen in this
perspective. Luciana Cuppo Csaki
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