Dear all,
I've been a passive observer of this list for a while now, and
have been enjoying every minute (not to mention adding to various
bibliographies). It's time I introduced myself, and tossed in a question
of my own to the learned list-members: my name is Lara Hinchberger, and I
am a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the U. of
Toronto. My dissertation is on Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, and my broad
interest encompass women's education and writing in any era.
My question, or rather request, centres around some latin quotations used
in a 16th c. life of an English recusant nun, a Bridgettine whose
biographer wrote in English but tossed in some latin quotes, mostly from
the Psalms, but s/he uses at least on from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations,
although slightly modified. Three that I'm having trouble pinning down
are:
Noli esto iustus nimium
O quam suavis est dominus [the trouble here is that the PL brings up many
refs - I was wondering if there is a <i>locus classicus</i> for the
concept]
Carcer et exilium [the author's spelling] virtutis sunt materies
Any suggestions would be mostly gratefully received by both myself and the
scholar for whom i am trying to ferret out these quotations.
Many thanks,
Lara
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