Medieval exempla in transition : Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum and its readers / Victoria Smirnova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smirnova, Victoria, author.

Series:

Cistercian studies series ; no. 296.

Cistercian studies series ; number two hundred ninety-six

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caesarius, of Heisterbach, approximately 1180-approximately 1240. Dialogus miraculorum.

Caesarius.

Miracles.

Exempla.

Dialogus miraculorum (Caesarius, of Heisterbach).

Physical Description:

xxix, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This study follows the transmission and reception of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (1219-1223), a Cistercian collection of miracles and memorable events, from the Middle Ages to the present day. It ranges across different media and within different interpretive communities and includes brief summaries of a number of the exempla"-- Provided by publisher.

"This study follows the transmission and reception of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (1219-1223), one of the most compelling and successful Cistercian collections of miracles and memorable events, from the Middle Ages to the present day. It ranges across different media and within different interpretive communities and includes brief summaries of a number of the exempla"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. The White Monks and their stories

1. Cistercian storytelling in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

2. Cistercian Exemplum production in the late thirteenth through fifteenth centuries

3. Cistercian manuscripts of the Dialogus miraculorum

4. Version B of the Dialogus miraculorum

5. Version C of the Dialogus miraculorum

6. Versions D and E of the Dialogus miraculorum

7. Cistercian readers interacting with the Dialogus miraculorum

8. The Dialogus miraculorum and other Exempla collections in Cisterican libraries

Part 2. Outside Cistercian walls

9. Regular canons ans readers of the Dialogus miraculorum

10. Benedictines, Carthusians, and Mendicant Friars

Part 3. The way into modernity

11. Incunabulum editions

12. Jacob Fischer's edition (1591) and the controversy over miracles

13. Bertrand Tissier's edition (1662)

14. The Dialogus miraculorum and its modern reception: from derision to fascination

15 From the twentieth century to the present day: academia and popular cultures

Appendix I. Cited manuscripts of Caesarius's Dialogus miraculorum

Appendix II. Summaries of nine Exempla added to Version B of the Dialogus miraculorum

Appendix III. Other cited manuscripts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-323) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Smirnova, Victoria. Medieval exempla in transition

ISBN:

9780879071301

0879071303

OCLC:

1335541078