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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
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Tel. +49 (0) 172 407 6073
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