This is just a little later than you asked, but do you know Nicholas of
Cusa's "Concordantia Catholica", mid-l5th century? Translators have had
trouble translating that word. Pardon Tillinghast
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, CA Muessig wrote:
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:13:06 +0100 (BST)
> From: CA Muessig <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: FEAST 13 June
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> Today, 13 June, is the feast of ...
>
> * Felicula, martyr (90?) - offered the choice of marrying someone
> (Flaccus, rejected suitor of St Petronilla) or sacrificing to idols, she
> chose to starve herself, until eventually tortured and suffocated in the
> sewers of Rome
>
> * Aquilina, martyr (end of third century?) - after her execution, it was
> ordered that her body be mutilated; but instead of blood, there was milk
> that flowed from her
>
> * Triphyllius, bishop of Nicosia (c. 370) - described by Jerome as 'the
> most eloquent of his age'
>
> * Gerard of Clairvaux (1138) - Bernard's second and favourite brother,
> but not among the party of young relatives and friends who had
> accompanied Bernard when he entered Citeaux
>
> * Antony of Padua, doctor (1231) - a journal, *Il Santo*, is dedicated
> to the study of Antony - patron of those seeking lost objects; invoked
> incessantly by some who will go unnamed. (Paul Spilsbury, Bristolhas
> just completed his Ph.D on the sermons of Antony of Padua. His special
> interest is in the technique of *concordantia* of scriptural texts. If
> anyone out there should know of any other medieval author's use of the
> terms *concorantia* or *concordare* in the twelfth or thirteenth century
> please inform the list! Thanks.)
>
> James Brundage responsded with the following:
>
> Well, to state the blindingly obvious, there's Gratian's _Concordia
> discordantium canonum_ as a reasonably prominent specimen. Mr. Spilsbury
> might do worse than to look at Stephan Kuttner's *Harmony from
> Dissonance: An Interpretation of Medieval Canon Law,* originally
> published as a book (Latrobe, PA: St. Vincent's Archabbey, 1960) and, I
> understand, still available from the publisher in that form at a
> preposterous price ($5.00 or something of the sort). The piece has
> subsequently been reset and reprinted as a 16-page chapter in Kuttner's
> _History of Ideas and Doctrines of Canon Law in the Middle Ages,_ 2nd
> ed. (Variorum, 1992).
>
> Thanks James! Further suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
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