medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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On 5-Nov-10, at 4:17 PM, Bernadette Giguere wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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> Dear Jackie,
>
> On vir dei (or homo dei):
>
> Joseph N. Garvin, _The Vitas sanctorum patrum emeretensium: Text and
> translation, with an introduction and commentary_, Catholic University
> of
> America Press 1946 (= Studies in medieval and Renaissance Latin, 19),
> p.320
>
> Basilius Steidle, _"Homo Dei Antonius". Zum Bild des "Mannes Gottes"
> im alten
> Mönchtum_, Studia Anselmiana 38 (1956), p.148-200
>
> Gregorio Penco, _La figura del vir dei nell'agiografia monastica_,
> Benedictina
> 15 (1968), p.1-13
>
> Gisela Muschiol, _Zur Typologie weiblicher Heiliger vom frühen
> Mittelalter bis
> zur "Legenda maior"_, in: Eckard Grunewald / Nikolaus Gussone (eds.),
> _Das Bild
> der Heiligen Hedwig in Mittelalter und Neuzeit_, Munich: Oldenbourg
> Wissenschaftsverlag, 1996 (= Schriften des Bundesinstituts für
> ostdeutsche
> Kultur und Geschichte, 7), p.37ff., see esp. § 2: "Vir Dei - Famula
> Dei", p.40f.
>
> "magister":
>
> K. Jensen, Speculum 56 (1985) p.420-422, in his review of Christine
> Renardy, _Le
> monde des maîtres universitaires du diocèse de Liège, 1140-1350.
> Recherches sur
> sa composition et ses activités_, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1979 (=
> Bibliothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l'Université
> de Liège,
> 227), points out that she is offering, at the beginning of her book,
> ""a useful
> discussion of the meaning of the term _magister_ in the twelfth
> century"; it's
> not very likely to offer much, if anything, on the use of this term
> for hermits,
> but you might give it a try.
>
> I have also briefly tested a few electronic ressources, but did not
> come up with
> anything of great interest:
>
> Albuinus Eremita (early 11th cent.), author of a theological
> compilation which
> is important also for the history of the text of Adso's _De ortu et
> tempore
> antichrist_ (see F. J. Worstbrock, Art. _Albuinus Eremita_, in: Horst
> Stammler
> et al., _Verfasserlexikon der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters_,
> vol. I,
> 1977, col. 207-209) is said by Michael Embach -- though not by
> Worstbrock -- to
> have been termed also "monachus" and "magister": see Michael Embach,
> _Trierer
> Literaturgeschichte: Das Mittelalter_, Trier: Kliomedia, 2007 (=
> Geschichte und
> Kultur des Trierer Landes, 8), p.494; I have not looked up Embach
> myself and
> cannot say what his sources for the term "magister" are.
>
> Petrus Alfonsi, _Disciplina clericalis_ XXIX,7, has is a short
> dialogue between
> an eremita and his magister, but it is not stated explicitly that the
> "magister"
> too is to be seen as an "eremita" (Eremitaquidam quaesivit a magistro:
> Quid
> faciam in hoe saeculo, quod me praecedat in alio? — Magister: Fac quod
> bonum est
> in genere tuo).
>
> As you mention Robert of Abrissel, you are probably already aware of
> the
> "heremita nomine Salomon" who founded a community at Nyoiseau and was
> called
> also "magister illius loci": Bruce L. Venarde, _Women's monasticism
> and medieval
> society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215_, Cornell UP, 1999,
> p.64
>
> Kind regards, O.
>
> Dr. Otfried Lieberknecht
> D-40477 Düsseldorf
> Klever Str. 37
> Tel. +49 (0) 172 407 6073
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