Theology, rhetoric, and politics in the Eucharistic controversy, 1078-1079 : Alberic of Monte Cassino against Berengar of Tours / Charles M. Radding, Francis Newton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radding, Charles.

Contributor:

Newton, Francis.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alberic, of Monte Cassino, 1020-1105. Adversus Beregarium Diaconum de corpore et sanguine Domini.

Alberic.

Berengar, of Tours, approximately 1000-1088.

Berengar.

University of Aberdeen. Library--Manuscript--160, fol. 55v-61v.

University of Aberdeen.

Lord's Supper--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Lord's Supper.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

Latin

Summary:

In the concluding stages of the eleventh-century Eucharistic Controversy, which turned on whether, and how, sacramental consecration changed the nature of bread and wine at the altar, Alberic of Monte Cassino composed a small but important treatise. Alberic was the most renowned teacher of rhetoric in his time, and his treatise, buttressed by appeal to the authority of the Church Fathers, was said by contemporaries to have "utterly destroyed" the argument of his opponent, Berengar of Tours, that the bread and wine survived its consecration. Modern scholars had long believed Alberic's treatise to be lost. This book demonstrates that this crucial document, far from being lost, is an existing identifiable text. By showing conclusively that this work was written by Alberic, Radding and Newton transform our understanding not only of the particulars of the controversy and papal politics but also of the intellectual process by which theological doctrines took shape in mediaeval Church councils. The book includes the full Latin text and the first translation of Alberic's treatise.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

ONE. Berengar of Tours and the Eucharistic Controversy

TWO. The Aberdeen Libellus Against Berengar of Tours

THREE. Style and Content of the Libellus

FOUR. Berengar of Tours and the Roman Councils of 1078 and 1079

Conclusion

The Text and Translation of the Libellus

APPENDIX. The Dossier of Unconnected Sententiae Following the Libellus in the Aberdeen Manuscript

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.

Contains:

Alberic, of Monte Cassino, 1020-1105. Adversus Beregarium Diaconum de corpore et sanguine Domini. English & Latin.

ISBN:

9780231501675

0231501676

OCLC:

826476426