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Richard Rolle Postille super novem lectiones mortuorum / Glosses on the Nine Lessons of the Dead
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, Pages: clvi + 260 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:12 colour plates, Language:English. , *new ISBN 9780888442383.
This volume offers a critical edition and translation of one of Richard Rolle?s final Latin writings, together with an extensive historical introduction, notes, and commentary. Rolle works carefully through each word and phrase of the nine passages from Job read in Matins in the Office of the Dead, showing how Job?s words could and perhaps should be read and prayed by a true contemplative. By turns preacherly and scholarly, precise and powerfully affective, with frequent recourse to the rapturous experiences of divine love that are now considered the hallmarks of Rolle?s mysticism, this late work made the hermit?s own preparation for death available for reflection and emulation. This work?s influence on the educated English clergy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries made it a major contributor to Christian attitudes toward death and dying in the later medieval English Church. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Sigla Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction I. Author and Work II. Manuscripts and Early Print Editions III. Classification of the Witnesses IV. The Edition Plates RICHARD ROLLE Postille super novem lectiones mortuorum Glosses on the Nine Lessons of the Dead Lesson 1: Job 7:16?21 Lesson 2: Job 10:1?7 Lesson 3: Job 10:8?12 Lesson 4: Job 13:22?28 Lesson 5: Job 14:1?6 Lesson 6: Job 14:13?16 1 Lesson 7: Job 17:1?3 and 11?15 Lesson 8: Job 19:20?27 Lesson 9: Job 10:18?22 Commentary Appendix: Interpolations Bibliography Index biblicus
Sermons of William of Newburgh
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2010 Hardcover. X 118 p., 140 x 215 mm, Languages: Latin, English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888444813.
This volume offers a first edition of three twelfth-century homiletic works by William of Newburgh, which together constitute a significant witness to the development of meditative theology as a vehicle of spirituality in England in the generations after Anselm. This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-century canon regular William of Newburgh: a homily on Luke 11.27 that explores in two successive sections the literal and typological exegesis of the passage, respectively; a sermon on the Trinity, structured as an extended exegesis of the Gloria Patri and the Benedicamus, and owing much to Augustinian notions of the Trinitarian structure of the human soul as an image of God; and a sermon on the martyrdom of St Alban which extrapolates from relatively brief references to the details of the narrative in order to explore the nature of martyrdom and the union of the martyr?s soul with Christ. Together they constitute a significant witness to the development of meditative theology as a vehicle of spirituality in England in the generations after Anselm. In keeping with the principles of the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series, the texts are edited from a single MS witness, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C. 31 in the case of the first two works and that of London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 73 in the case of the third, with judicious appeal to the other two MSS for variant readings only where the reading of the base MS is clearly defective. The volume concludes with an index of biblical citations.
