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Know Yourself (Scito te ipsum)
, Brepols, 2025 Paperback, Pages: 309, Size:156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Latin. ISBN 9782503601632.
Summary Peter Abelard (1079-1142), famous for his unhappy love story with Heloise, which he wrote down in his autobiographical work Historia calamitatum, was among the most respected scholars of his time. Brilliant as a philosopher and theologian, he was one of the co-founders of scholasticism, seeking to elucidate theological facts through logic. Scito te ipsum is one of the most important texts of the twelfth century. Only in the later phase of his life and work did Abelard decide to separate moral themes from his overall theological schema, and to dedicate a monograph to them under the guiding concepts of "sin" (First Book) and "obedience before God" (Second Book, unfinished). As Ethica nostra it was intended to provide a Christian conception alongside a philosophical ethics, and to summarise the results of his previous studies. Along with Abelard's entire theology, this treatise was also condemned as heretical by Pope Innocent II, and was long considered lost. Since its rediscovery in the 18th century, it has met with lively interest both from a theological and also from a philosophical point of view. The historical aspects of the work and its integration into Abelard's complete works receive special attention in the introduction to this volume, which presents the Latin text from the Corpus Christianorum (CC CM 190) with a new English translation. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Preface II. Introduction 1. A momentous letter 2. The Title Scito te ipsum 3. Ethica nostra 4. Time of composing 5. Announcement of the Ethica 6. Relations to other works of Abelard 7. Other sources and reference texts 8. The structure of the work and the question of its completeness 9. Basic concepts 10. Scito te ipsum and the Synod of Sens 11. Manuscripts and Editions III. Outline of Scito te ipsum IV. Text and Translation V. Bibliography VI. Index
Commentaries on The Angelic Hierarchy
, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 412 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503600437.
Summary Thomas Gallus (d. 1246) was the Abbot of Vercelli in the north of Italy. Initially a canon regular in the abbey of St Victor in Paris, he helped found a new monastery and church in the home town of his patron, Cardinal Guala Bicchieri. As well as commenting on the Canticle of Canticles three times, Thomas was renowned for his expositions of the works of Dionysius the Areopagite, commentaries which earned him the title magister in hierarchia (master of the hierarchies). This volume contains the first translation in any language of his Glosses on the Angelic (or Celestial) Hierarchy (completed in 1224), as well as his more detailed Explanation of the Angelic Hierarchy (finished in 1243). The commentaries are fascinating for their insights into Thomas's teaching that love has a higher access to an experience of God than the intellect, the role of the angelic hierarchies in the mystical return of the soul, the psychological interpretation of the angels as representing faculties of the soul, and the use of symbols representing analogical features of the divine. The source text of this volume appeared in Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis as Thomas Gallus, Super angelica ierarchia (CCCM, 223) and Glose super angelica ierarchia (CC CM, 223A). References to the corresponding pages of the Corpus Christianorum edition are provided in the margins of this translation. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Introduction Bibliography The Explanation of the Angelic Hierarchy Glosses on the Angelic Hierarchy Glossary Indexes
Three Writings on Mystical Theology: Exposition of the Mystical Theology, Commentary on the Canticle of Canticles, On the Seven Steps of Contemplation. With Accompanying Translations and an Introduction
, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 533 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9782503607337.
Summary This volume contains a newly-edited exposition on the Mystical Theology contained in MS UV6 of the Biblioteca degli Intronati in Siena. The MS attributes the work to the abbot of Vercelli (Thomas Gallus), but this is shown to be a false attribution. A commentary on the Canticle of Canticles has also been attributed to Thomas Gallus but argued against by J. Barbet in Brepols' SRSA volume 10 (2005). This commentary is reprinted and accompanied with the first ever English translation. A treatise on the Seven Steps to Contemplation in Latin with an English translation is the third text. An introductory critical study evaluates all three works and argues that they all belong to the same author, pseudo-Thomas Gallus. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction The Texts and the Background of Dionysius the Areopagite Previous Editions The Three Texts Analysis of the Style and Language of the Texts New evidence from the Exposition of the Mystical Theology, Intime domus sue Postlude: Exposition of the Books of Blessed Dionysius (Expositio librorum beati Dionysii) Conclusions Principles of the Edition Text and Translation Exposition of the Mystical Theology (Intime domus sue) Commentary on the Canticle of Canticles (Deiformis anime gemitus) On the Seven Steps of Contemplation (De septem gradibus contemplationis) Bibliography Glossary Indices
Corpus Christianorum. Thomas Gallus Explanatio in libros Dionysii,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Hardback, XXXII+988 p., 3 b/w ill., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503533599.
The Victorine and later Abbot of Vercelli, Thomas Gallus (?-1246) was renowned for his affective interpretation of the writings of Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite. His writings played a major part in the re-discovery of Dionysius in the thirteenth century, and in the general development of western mysticism, for example through his teaching on the 'spark of synderesis'. In this volume, Gallus's Glosses on the Celestial Hierarchy and his major commentary on the whole Dionysian corpus, the Explanatio, are edited in their entirety for the first time. Languages: Latin, English.
Corpus Christianorum. Thomas Gallus Glose super angelica ierarchia Accedunt indices ad Thomae Galli Opera,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Hardback, X+273 p., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503541396.
The Victorine and later Abbot of Vercelli, Thomas Gallus (?-1246) was renowned for his affective interpretation of the writings of Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite. His writings played a major part in the re-discovery of Dionysius in the thirteenth century, and in the general development of western mysticism, for example through his teaching on the 'spark of synderesis'. In this volume, Gallus's Glosses on the Celestial Hierarchy and his major commentary on the whole Dionysian corpus, the Explanatio, are edited in their entirety for the first time. Languages: Latin, English.
