Send me God : the lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, nun of La Ramée, Arnulf, lay brother of Villers, and Abundus, monk of Villers / by Goswin of Bossut ; translated by, and with an introduction by Martinus Cawley OCSO and with a preface by Barbara Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goswin, of Bossut, author.

Contributor:

Cawley, Martinus, translator, writer of introduction.

Newman, Barbara, writer of preface.

Series:

Medieval women--texts and contexts ; Volume 6.

Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ida, of Nivelles, -1231.

Ida.

Arnulf, of Villers.

Arnulf.

Abundus, of Villers.

Abundus.

Christian saints--Belgium--Biography.

Christian saints.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the early 13th century the diocese of Liège witnessed an extraordinary religious revival, known to us largely through the abundant corpus of saints' lives from that region. Holy women were held up by their biographers as models of orthodoxy and miraculous powers. Less familiar but no less fascinating are the male saints of the region. In this volume the author has translated a trilogy of Cistercian lives composed by the same hagiographer, Goswin.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; CONTENTS; Abbreviations; Select Bibliography; Preface by Barbara Newman; Villers The Geography and History of Goswin's World; Villers The Literary Corpus; Goswin of Bossut Cantor of Villers; Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles; Arnulf Lay Brother of Villers; Abundus Monk of Villers; The Title Send Me God; Translation Policy; Acknowledgements; 1 Ida's Parentage Infancy and Childhood; 2 She Enters the Order at Kerkom; 3 The Monastery Transferred A Clandestine Communion; 4 A Financial Decision An Early Revelation; 5 Praying for the Soul of a Sister's Father

6 Two Priests Tempted to Fornication7 Ida Frees a Sister from Blasphemy; 8 A Deceased Nun Appears to Ida; 9 Pleading for a Woman A Purgatorial Bridge; 10 A Deceased Sister Foretells Ida's Death; 11 The Incestuous Man; 12 Ida's Vision of Two Toads; 13 Demons in the Dormitory and Infirmary; 14 A Departed Soul Freed from Three Demons; 15 Ida Unmasks an Apostate Canon Regular; 16 Ida Reassures a Canon Regular about his Sins; 17 A Religious Woman's Three Defects; 18 The Book of Life the Mountaintop and Hell; 19 The Christ Child Seen at Pentecost Dinner; 20 The Eucharist during the Harvest

21 The Christ Child at the Christmas Masses22 A Night of Story telling at Liège; 23 Mary Offers her Son to Ida; 24 The Christ Child Seen Catching Ida's Tears; 25 A Friend Familiar with Mary and with Ida; 26 A Doubting Priest Comes to Belief in Ida; 27 The Priests of Maagdendaal and Thuin; 28 The Seven Gifts The Trinity Maagdendaal; 29 Ida's Eight Topics of Contemplation; 30 Her Charity and Compassion; 31 Her Humility and Obedience; 32 Her Patience; 33 Her Last Illness; 34 Her Death; 35 Posthumous Miracles; Appendix I The Verses; Appendix II Ida in the Dialogues of Caesarius

Appendix III Ida in the Life of Beatrice of Nazareth1 Early Life and Initial Conversatio; 2 Entering Villers Three Penitential Ropes; 3 Rods and Broom Stems as Whips Arnulf Explains his Intent; 4 A Cane to Beat Himself Nettles to Roll in; 5 Garments of Sackcloth and a Triple Chain; 6 His Vest of Hedgehog Pelts; 7 His Bedding; 8 His Food and Drink; 9 His Work his Vigils his Sleep; 10 His Regimes for Winter and for Summer; 11 His Daily Regime in Lent; 1 Arnulf's Charity; 2 Pigs Forbidden to Grunt and then Given Away; 3 His Humility and Patience; 4 His Obedience and Prayer

5 Our Lady Reveals to Arnulf her Seven Heavenly Joys6 Jesus Offers Arnulf ever Loftier Visions; 7 His Laughter; 8 Four Encounters with Demons; 9 A Monk Freed from Rupture Send me God; 10 The Convent of Argensolles Founded on Arnulf's Advice; 11 Chiding a Recluse for Neglecting her Protégé; 12 Foretelling the Death of a Priest's Mother; 13 Reproving a Priest's Pretence of Religiosity; 14 Helping a Novice and Two Monks in Need; 15 Vision of a Monk Carried up to Heaven; 16 Sending God to a Matron in Paris; 17 Awareness of a Grace Sent to a Devout Woman; 18 Arnulf Consulted by Two Clerics

19 Foretelling a Possessed Girl's Liberation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-503-52640-3

OCLC:

171582710