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‎Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism - with a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 687 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:1 col., 3 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9782503589602.‎

‎Summary The seventh-century Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines (Someone's Rule for Virgins), which was most likely written by Jonas of Bobbio, the hagiographer of the Irish monk Columbanus, forms an ideal point of departure for writing a new history of the emergence of Western monasticism understood as a history of the individual and collective attempt to pursue eternal salvation. The book provides a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and a roadmap for such a new history revolving around various aspects of monastic discipline, such as the agency of the community, the role of enclosure, authority and obedience, space and boundaries, confession and penance, sleep and silence, excommunication and expulsion. TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary The book consists of two sections. The first is a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines, a seventh-century Frankish monastic rule for nuns, along with the short treatise De accedendo ad Deum, which most likely formed a part of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines. The second section is a study on the transformations and diversification of monastic theology, concepts of communal life and monastic discipline in the early medieval period. It revolves around the Regula cuisudam ad uirgines in its historical and intertextual context. The study is divided four parts that are related to the four key words of the title of the book (Community, Space, Discipline, and Salvation). Each part consists of a chapter that makes an argument about the place of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines in intertextual contexts and a chapter that applies these arguments in a historical inquiry. Introduction Section I: Edition and Translation of the Regua cuiusdam ad uirgines Section II: Study Part I: Community revolves around the question to what extent the monastic community can serve as an agent of the collective and individual pursuit of salvation Chapter 1: Quidam pater - quaedam mater? The Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and its author provides a survey of the monastic milieu in which the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines was written, discusses potential authors and stakeholders in the monastic foundation that may have been addressed by the Rule and shows on the basis of semantic and stylistic similarities and shared content and ideas that Jonas of Bobbio, the author of the Vita Columbani, is to be considered the author of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines as well. Chapter 2: The dying nuns of Faremoutiers: the regula in action argues that Jonas of Bobbio's description of the deaths of the nuns of Faremoutiers, which is a part of Book 2 of his Vita Columbani, and the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines represent the same monastic program, once presented as a "narrated rule", once as a normative text. The Faremoutiers episodes are closely modelled after Book 4 of the Dialogi of Gregory the Great and can be read as a critical response to Gregory's eschatology and his notion of pursuing salvation by living a virtuous life. After having fleshed out the parallels and differences between the Dialogi and the Faremoutiers miracles, the chapter analyzes each episode of the Faremoutiers miracles, showing that Jonas wrote his monastic program in a highly sophisticated manner into stories describing the deaths occurring in the founding generation of nuns in Faremoutiers - deaths that were most likely still remembered by the primary audience of the Vita Columbani. Part II: Space discusses the role of space and boundaries for the monastic pursuit of salvation and explores the origins of the medieval cloister Chapter 3 The Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines, a supplement to Caesarius' Rule for Nuns? compares the provisions of Caesarius of Arles' Rule for Nuns with the Regula cuisudam ad uirgines and argues that Jonas wrote his Rule as an expansion and revision of Caesarius work: an "early medieval" update of a "late antique" monastic program, as it were. Chapter 4: Enclosure re-opened: Caesarius, Jonas, and the invention of sacred space discusses the evolution of Caesarius of Arles' notion of enclosure as salvific instrument and then shows how Jonas of Bobbio tried to face the aporias of Caeasarius' theology of enclosure by expanding it towards a system of total control of all physical, social and corporeal boundaries and the implementation of various enclosures. Part III: Discipline provides a historical survey of the evolution of various aspects of monastic discipline in early medieval monastic rules leading to the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines. Chapter 5: The Regula Benedicti in seventh-century Francia explores the role of the Regula Benedicti in Frankish monasticism in the aftermath of Columbanus and shows how Jonas used and revised the Regula Benedicti and refuted some of his main theological premises. Chapter 6: The Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and its context describes the history of the topics addressed in each chapter of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and provides a detailed commentary to the Rule itself, showing how Jonas rewrote the Regula Benedicti. I discuss every chapter of the Rule but put a special emphasis on the following topics: abbatial authority, hierarchy, boundaries, love, confession, silence, work, sleep, excommunication, and family ties. Part IV: Salvation focusses on the short treatise De accedendo ad Deum which provides a unique theological rationale why monastic discipline enables monks and nuns to pray effectively and to attain eternal salvation. Chapter 7: De accedendo ad Deum - a lost chapter of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines? shows that De accedendo was most likely a lost chapter of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and thus written by Jonas of Bobbio as well. Chapter 8: Prompto corde orandum: the theological program of De accedendo analyzes the theological argument that monastic discipline enable a nun or monk to approach God through prayer, which forms one of the most sophisticated early medieval responses to the challenge of the doctrine of prevenient grace and the "semi-Pelagian" debate. De accedendo essentially explains how the monastic pursuit of salvation works. Conclusion Three appendices provide textual evidence for ascribing the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines to Jonas of Bobbio and to document the reception of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines in the eighth-century Life of Bertila. Bibliography of manuscripts, sources, and literature Index uerborum‎

‎The Enchanted World 11 Volumes 1 In Search of Salvation 2 The Fall of Camelot ‎

‎The Enchanted World 11 Volumes 1 In Search of Salvation 2 The Fall of Camelot 3 Gods and Goddesses 4 Dwarfs 5 The Book of Begins 6 Fairies and Elves 7 Wizards and Witches 8 Dragons 9 The Book of Nativity 10 Magical Animals 11 Ghosts of the Night. In Russian /Zacharovannyy mir 11 tomov 1 V poiskakh spaseniya 2 Padenie Kamelota 3 Bogi i bogini 4 Gnomy 5 Kniga nachal 6 Fei i elfy 7 Kolduny i vedmy 8 Drakony 9 Kniga rozhdestva 10 Volshebnye zhivotnye 11 Prizraki nochi. The Enchanted World 11 Volumes 1 In Search of Salvation 2 The Fall of Camelot 3 Gods and Goddesses 4 Dwarfs 5 The Book of Begins 6 Fairies and Elves 7 Wizards and Witches 8 Dragons 9 The Book of Nativity 10 Magical Animals 11 Ghosts of the Night. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb06ab8866d4f3a414.‎

‎The Enchanted World 18 Volumes 1 In Search of Salvation 2 Spirits of Water 3 T‎

‎The Enchanted World 18 Volumes 1 In Search of Salvation 2 Spirits of Water 3 The Fall of Camelot 4 Gods and Goddesses 5 Dwarfs 6 The Book of Nativity 7 The Book of Beginnings 8 Fairies and Elves 9 Witchcraft and Witches 10 Ghosts of the Night 11 Dragons 12 A Tale of Love 13 Secret Arts 14 Magical Animals In Russian /Zacharovannyy mir 18 tomov 1 V poiskakh spaseniya 2 Dukhi vod 3 Padenie Kamelota 4 Bogi i bogini 5 Gnomy 6 Kniga Rozhdestva 7 Kniga nachal 8 Fei i elfy 9 Kolduny i vedmy 10 Prizraki nochi 11 Drakony 12 Skazanie o lyubvi 13 Taynye iskusstva 14 Volshebnye zhivotny The Enchanted World 18 Volumes 1 In Search of Salvation 2 Spirits of Water 3 The Fall of Camelot 4 Gods and Goddesses 5 Dwarfs 6 The Book of Nativity 7 The Book of Beginnings 8 Fairies and Elves 9 Witchcraft and Witches 10 Ghosts of the Night 11 Dragons 12 A Tale of Love 13 Secret Arts 14 Magical Animals. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb28ea5bec5e7f1e42.‎

‎Stanley Henry M. In grim Africa, or the search for salvation and retreat of Emi‎

‎Stanley Henry M. In grim Africa, or the search for salvation and retreat of Emin, Governor of Equateur Province. In Russian /Stenli Genri M. V mrachnoy Afrike, ili poisk spaseniya i otstuplenie Emina, gubernatora Ekvatorialnoy provintsii. Lond.1890. In two volumes of B in Central Africa, or the search for the salvation and confinement of Emin, the province of Equatorial Guinea, in two volumes. Author Henry M. Stanley. Issued in London in 1890. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb30aaed35e773d558.‎

‎Confraternity, Mendicant Orders, and Salvation in the Middle Ages. The Contribution of the Hungarian Sources (c.1270-c.1530)‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xvii + 365 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, 2 tables b/w., 2 Maps, 14 Graphs, Language: English. ISBN 9782503578712.‎

‎Summary By the late Middle Ages, mendicant spiritual confraternities had developed a poor reputation. Their spiritual status was ill-identified: somewhere between requests for intercession, necrological commemoration, and pious associations. In the hands of the mendicants, they seemed to resemble what indulgences had supposedly become in the hands of the papacy: bait that was handed out to extort funds from the faithful while offering an apparently immediate access to Paradise. Thus, like indulgences, they seem to have been gradually emptied of their substance and denounced (even before Luther) as glaring evidence of the corruption of the Roman Church. Much recent scholarship has followed this negative portrait of spiritual confraternities ? unless it has conflated them with other non-spiritual confraternities, or indeed ignored them altogether. This volume draws on the abundant number of letters of confraternity available from Hungarian sources in order to provide a more nuanced picture of mendicant spiritual confraternities. It sheds new light on the links between the mendicants and their supports among the laity, and emphasises the broader significance of the confraternity movement in late medieval piety in Central Europe and beyond. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Spiritual Confraternities of the Mendicant Orders - In a Blind Spot of Research An Elusive Object of Study The Link Between Confraternitas and the Monks Do Mendicant Spiritual Confraternities Exist? Established Historical Givens Unresolved Questions Central European Trajectories Chapter 2. The Hungarian Documentary Corpus Sources on The Spiritual Confraternities of the Mendicant Orders in the Middle Ages The Documentation Pertaining to Hungary: Overview 'Hungarian' Letters of Confraternity Chapter 3. The Success of Mendicant Spiritual Confraternities in Hungary until about 1530 The Hungarian Religious Context The Infatuation with Mendicant Spiritual Confraternities Sociography of the Affiliates Chapter 4. The Process of Spiritual Affiliation to the Mendicants A Nebula of Graces The Letter in Spiritual Affiliation From Individual to Confraternitas Chapter 5. Mendicant Uses of Spiritual Confraternity The Involvement of the Mendicants in the Development of Spiritual Confraternities The Interest of Spiritual Association for the Friars The Franciscans and Spiritual Confraternity The Other Mendicants Chapter 6. Confraternity and Salvation: The Affiliates' View The Value of Spiritual Confraternity on the Salvation Market Why Affiliate Oneself with The Mendicants? Three Itineraries of Spiritual Associates Conclusion Bibliography Tables, Maps, Graphs Appendix: Sixteen Letters of Confraternity Figures (Letters Of Confraternity, Seals) Index of Proper Names‎