medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Do the letter collections of Augustine or Gregory the Great show similar
traits?
This is an area I've become more and more interested in lately -- the
organizational categories that a medieval would have in mind making a letter or
sermon collection, or a collection of short treatises. As are questions
relating to how such collections might have shaped a medieval's reading of the
texts in a collection.
From what little I've gotten into this, it seems to me that there is room for a
*lot* more work to be done on such topics.
Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
PhD candidate in Theolgy, University of Notre Dame
Quoting Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> i *believe* that Giles Constable has a general discussion of letter
> collections in the introduction to his fine edition of the letters of Peter
> the Venerable, which might be of help (for access to the previous secondary
> literature, at the least).
>
> also, did i see a little volume on letter collections in that recent and
> on-going Brepols series on "Sources du Moyen Age" (or something like that)?
>
> or was that just another Senior Moment?
>
> i'm not sure what the organising principle might be in the collection of
> either Bishops Fulbert or Ivo of Chartres' letters --there doesn't seem to
> be
> any, as best i can recall.
>
> organising undated letters by date would be (and is) a very, very difficult
> thing to do, so ordering by the recipients' rank would be one obvious way to
> go.
>
> most medieval cartularies that i've seen are organised that way (at least in
> part), with general charters of Kings, Counts, Bulls of Popes, Bishops'
> charters being put at the beginning ; followed by the charters from all
> sources dealing with individual priories, grouped together by priory, no
> doubt
> because that is the way they would need to be accessed, in case of a dispute
> (the main reason for generating and preserving the charters, after all).
>
> i know of no cartularies which survive from medieval manuscripts which order
> the charters by date --i think that such an arrangement would make no sense,
> to the middlevils.
>
> perhaps the same holds true for letter collections.
>
> best from here,
>
> christopher
>
>
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