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"MARX, KARL [Translated by:] P. RUMYANTSEV [Edited by:] A.MANUILOV.
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Kritika nekotorykh polozhenii politicheskoi ekonomii. (i.e.: ""Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie"", i.e.: ""A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy""). - [FIRST RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF THE BLUEPRINT FOR ""DAS KAPITAL"" ]
Moscow, Izdanie Vladimira Bonch-Bruevicha, 1896. 8vo. In a later modest black half calf binding with marbled boards. Traces of stamp to verso of front and back board. Title-page slightly rubbed. Occassional underlignings in text and margins. Pp. 145-146 reinforced in margin. Otherwise a fine copy. XII, (4), (1)-160 pp.
Exceedingly rare first Russian translation of this groundbreaking work, in which Marx first presents his revolutionizing theories of capitalism. For years, the present work was largely overshadowed by ‘Das Kapital’, and despite being published 8 years earlier (The original being published in 1859, ‘Das Kapital’ in 1867), the present work was not translated, until ‘Das Kapital’ had made Marx a household name in socialist and revolutionary circles, making the present translation comparatively early (the first English translation being from 1904).The Russian censorship cut Marx’ preface in this first translation - the full text did not appear until the revolutionary decade of 1905-1917. This Manuilov/Rumiantsev-translation remained the canonic-translation throughout the Soviet rule. The translation was made by Bolshevik revolutionary Petr Rumiantsev (1870-1924), who left the party in 1907 and emigrated in 1918, but the success of the present translation is primarily due to editor Manuilov. Editor Alexander Appolonovich Manuilov (1861-1929) was a Russian economist and politician, famous not only as one of the founding members of the Constitutional Democratic party (known as the Kadets), but also as the Russian translator of the present work. ""Manuilov graduated from the law department of the University of Novorossiia (Odessa, 1883). He began scholarly and pedagogical work in political economy in 1888. In 1901 he became head of a subdepartment at Moscow University, becoming assistant rector in 1905 and serving as rector from 1908 to 1911. He was dismissed by the tsarist government for attacking the ""extremes"" of Stolypin's agrarian legislation. In the 1890's he was a liberal Narodnik (Populist), later becoming a Constitutional Democrat (Cadet) and a member of the Central Committee of the Cadet Party. Manuilov's draft on agrarian reform (1905) was the basis for the Cadets' agrarian program. V. I. Lenin sharply criticized Manuilov, calling him one of ""the bourgeois liberal friends of the muzhik who desire the 'extension of peasant land ownership' but do not wish to offend the landlords"" (Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 11, p. 126, note).""At the beginning of his scholarly career Manuilov accepted the labor theory of value. In 1896 he translated K. Marx' work A Contribution to the Criticism of Political Economy (Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie). During the years of reaction he espoused subjectivist and psychological views in political economy. In 1917 he was minister of education of the Provisional Government. After the October Revolution in 1917 he emigrated but soon returned and cooperated with Soviet power. He participated in the orthographic reform (1918). In 1924 he became a member of the board of Gosbank (State Bank). He taught in higher educational institutions. Changing to Marxist positions and relying on Lenin's works, he criticized the revisionists and neo-Narodniks on the agrarian question."" (Encycl. Britt.). For many years, the exclusive focus on ""Das Kapital"" meant that the ""Kritik"" was overlooked. Since the beginning of the 1960's, however, scholars have become increasingly aware of its importance as the blueprint for the social and economic theory Marx shall go on to develop (see for example Raymond Aron, ""Le Marxisme de Marx"", 1962). It is here that Marx outlines the research programme to which he shall devote the rest of his working life. He himself described ""Das Kapital"" as a continuation of his ""Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie"" (see e.g. PMM 359), in which his primary concern is an examination of capital and in which he provides the theoretical foundation for his political conclusions later presented in ""Das Kapital"". ""I examine the system of bourgeois economy in the following order: capital, landed property, wage-labour" the State, foreign trade, world market. The economic conditions of existence of the three great classes into which modern bourgeois society is divided are analysed under the first three headings the interconnection of the other three headings is self-evident. The first part of the first book, dealing with Capital, comprises the following chapters: 1. The commodity, 2. Money or simple circulation" 3. Capital in general. The present part consists of the first two chapters."" (Preface to the present work, in the translation (by S.W. Ryazanskaya) of the Progress Publishers-edition, Moscow, 1977). Apart from the obvious importance of the work as the foundational precursor to what is probably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century, the ""Kritik"" is of the utmost importance in the history of political and economic thought, as it is here, in the preface, that Marx outlines his classic formulation of historical materialism. This preface contains the first connected account of what constitutes one of Marx's most important and influential theories, namely the economic interpretation of history - the idea that economic factors condition the politics and ideologies that are possible in a society. ""The first work which I undertook to dispel the doubts assailing me was a critical re-examination of the Hegelian philosophy of law"" the introduction to this work being published in the Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher issued in Paris in 1844. My inquiry led me to the conclusion that neither legal relations nor political forms could be comprehended whether by themselves or on the basis of a so-called general development of the human mind, but that on the contrary they originate in the material conditions of life, the totality of which Hegel, following the example of English and French thinkers of the eighteenth century, embraces within the term ""civil society"""" that the anatomy of this civil society, however, has to be sought in political economy. The study of this, which I began in Paris, I continued in Brussels, where I moved owing to an expulsion order issued by M. Guizot. The general conclusion at which I arrived and which, once reached, became the guiding principle of my studies can be summarised as follows. In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or - this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms - with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure."" (Preface to the present work, in the translation (by S.W. Ryazanskaya) of the Progress Publishers-edition, Moscow, 1977). OCLC lists merely three copies, all in the US (Havard, Wisconsin, and Hoover Institute on War).
Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy. Fina Buzzacarini and the Baptistery of Padua
, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 384 pages, Size:225 x 280 mm, Illustrations:188 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503579689.
Summary Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy is the first English-language study of the baptistery of Padua and its extraordinarily rich fresco program, which opens with Genesis and closes with the Apocalypse. Remarkably, when the building was refashioned and frescoed by Giusto de' Menabuoi in the 1370s, it was a woman, Fina Buzzacarini, who funded the enterprise. In late medieval Italy, baptisteries were potent symbols of civic identity, solidarity, and pride, and towns spent lavishly on them - but no other baptistery was so radically reworked at the behest of a woman. Remarkably, too, though the building continued to function as Padua's baptismal church, the renovations transformed it into the mausoleum of Fina Buzzacarini and her family. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, using close visual analysis to argue that to a surprising degree, Fina exerted control over the images. The author argues too that ritual is equally important in understanding the frescoes: that in multiple ways that have rarely been considered, the images respond to and participate in the ritual enacted in this sacred space. The prayers intoned at the font, the actions of the officiant, the hymns chanted in procession and inside the baptistery, and even details of the rite all find visual echoes on the baptistery's walls. Ultimately, gender and ritual intersect in the multilayered frescoes of the Padua baptistery. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 Fina Buzzacarini in Carrara Padua Local chroniclers say little about Fina, but recount one salient aspect of her life: after marrying Francesco I Carrara in 1345, she failed for over a decade to produce the requisite son and heir. After crises at court over succession, in 1359 she gave birth to a son. Though the couple's marriage was strained by her husband's blatant philandering, previously overlooked records show that Fina, a very wealthy woman, gradually emerged as a powerful presence at court. While some have minimized the degree of Fina's responsibility for the baptistery's program, I cite a number of documents from the later trecento that attest to a woman's ability to shape the subject matter of a work that she funded. I next discuss Fina's tomb monument, which emulates those of earlier Carrara lords but outshines them, and her votive portrait, which places her on the dexter side, as sole donor, and excludes her husband. Finally, I consider the extraordinary small portraits of Fina inserted into several of the narratives and interpret them as assertions of her authority, overt claims of agency, injected through the program. Chapter 2 Baptistery as Mausoleum: Ambitions and Motivations Why would Fina have sought the baptistery as a burial site, and why did Francesco and the local bishop, whose approval would have been required, agree? The sacred space of a baptistery had long been understood as a desirable funerary site. For Francesco, the project meant the embellishment of one of the most important buildings in the city, burnishing the stature of the regime; co-opting the preeminent symbol of civic harmony; and creating a prestigious-and presumably spiritually advantageous-setting for his own tomb. For the bishop, given the brief tenures of his predecessors who dared to cross Francesco, attempting to thwart the project was not a viable option. Fina likely had reasons of her own, which I consider further in Chapter 6, for choosing the baptistery as her burial place. Here I note that baptisteries were uncommonly welcoming to women. The rite offered them a rare opportunity to participate in the liturgy: women took their place at the font next to men. Finally, in electing her burial in the baptistery, Fina insured that her tomb would be seen, and her memory preserved, by future generations. Chapter 3 Narrative, Ritual, Exegesis: The Genesis Cycle This chapter opens with an account of the baptismal ritual as performed in late medieval Italy- the choreography of prayers, chants, readings, ritual actions, and attendant customs for both the solemn rite and the individual rite. The rest of chapter 3, and chapters 4 and 5, analyze the frescoes in the narrative cycles, arguing that they are as carefully choreographed as the rite, and work in concert with it. They respond as well to baptismal theology, depicting themes that offer pictorial glosses on the rite, echoing typological parallels drawn by medieval exegetes. The Genesis cycle in the drum of the dome includes narratives both familiar and more obscure (the Death of Adam; Lamech Slaying Cain; Jacob's Prayer after his Dream; Jacob's Rods; the Reunion of Jacob and Esau). The obscure episodes are distinctly baptismal, and even the familiar ones are rendered in unusual ways that heighten their baptismal resonance. Chapter 4: Narrative, Ritual, Exegesis: The New Testament Cycle The baptismal themes introduced in the drum continue below, in the New Testament cycle, where the frescoes are often strategically sited to respond to others, each accruing meaning from those nearby. Because of these pictorial and thematic correspondences, it is most productive to analyze the frescoes spatially, wall by wall, rather than purely chronologically. While most of the New Testament episodes depicted here are commonly seen in trecento visual narrative, almost all have been adapted in ways that make them singularly appropriate to the site. For instance, in the Massacre of the Innocents, the slain babies, normally shown nude in trecento painting, wear white tunics that evoke the white garments given to infants after baptism; the jugs in the Marriage of Cana are enlarged versions of the ewer used in the baptismal rite. Chapter 5: Narrative, Ritual, Exegesis: The Apocalypse Cycle In the baptistery's apse is a remarkably detailed depiction of the book of Revelation, a subject seldom seen in trecento painting and never on this scale. The choice was well considered: from late antiquity into late medieval Italy, exegetes found in the text repeated allusions to the sacrament. Again, uncommon narrative inclusions, such as the opening of the fifth seal, with the giving of white garments to the souls under the altar, or idiosyncratic features, like the setting of scenes in dramatic seascapes that attest to the salvific potency of water, highlight the relationship between the images and the rite enacted here. Chapter 6: Gender Matters: Maternity, Sexuality, and Visual Rhetoric If the Padua baptistery is a site for the celebration of the liturgy, it is also a site for the celebration, and commemoration, of its patron. Chapter 6 returns to the visual evidence to examine Fina's role in the baptistery more closely. The gender symmetry of the dome, where women and men appear in equal numbers in the largest circle of Paradise, is suggestive. So is the Genesis cycle's insertion of women into the narrative, at times almost rewriting sacred history to insist on their active participation at critical junctures. Moreover, many of the women featured in the dome and the drum are, unlike most women in the Christian pantheon, mothers - significantly, mothers of sons. Several (Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Elizabeth) conceived and delivered sons only after a long delay. Important, too, is the Apocalyptic Woman of Rev. 12, prominently depicted in the apse, who gave birth to a son born to rule. All of these women serve as Fina's exemplars - and as reminders of her success in delivering her own long-awaited son. Finally, the frescoes also feature malevolent, and specifically sexually transgressive, women: Herodias, the wife of Lot, and the Whore of Babylon; all are visually juxtaposed with virtuous mothers, and Herodias, who had an adulterous relationship with a ruler, with Fina herself.
Benedict XV: A Pope in the World of the 'Useless Slaughter' (1914-1918)
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 2 vols, 1708 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503582894.
Summary On August 1, 1917 - three years after the outbreak of World War 1 - pope Benedict XV signed his famous peace note, urging the governments of the belligerent Powers to seek a diplomatic solution to their disputes and stop the "useless slaughter". In order to commemorate the event and to define the place of this "forgotten pope" in twentieth-century history, on November 3-5, 2016, the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII (Fscire) hosted an international conference, entitled "Benedict XV in the world of the useless slaughter", in which more than a hundred historians from all over the world participated. The aim of the initiative, supported by the Historical and Scientific Committee for Italy's National Anniversaries, is to shed light on the key issues of this pontificate, from Giacomo Della Chiesa's education in the theological seminary in Genua to his heritage and memory all along the twentieth century. The volume resulting from this conference provides a comprehensive and systematic reference work about a key figure in Church history that has all too often been neglected. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Foreword (Cardinal Pietro Parolin) Introduction (Alberto Melloni) Part One: Stages Origins and Formation Genoa: A Capital between Savoyard Annexation and the Risorgimento (Nicla Buonasorte) The Genoese Aristocracy from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: Traces of the Della Chiesa Family (Federica Meloni) The Migliorati and the Ancestry of Innocent VII (Anna Falcioni) Giacomo Raggi of Genoa, Capuchin Friar, and the Vocation of Giacomo Della Chiesa (Aldo Gorini) Formation and Studies at the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Genoa (Nicla Buonasorte) The Students of the Almo Collegio Capranica at the time of Rector Francesco Vinciguerra (Maurilio Guasco) A Diplomat of Leo XIII From Minutante to Sostituto in the Papal Secretariat of State (Klaus Unterburger) Controversies at the Top: Merry del Val, Della Chiesa, Pius X (1883-1907) (Annibale Zambarbieri) Rampolla, Della Chiesa, Benedict XV (Jean-Marc Ticchi) The Bologna Episcopate Giacomo Della Chiesa's First Pastoral Letter to Bologna (Giovanni Turbanti) Culture and Catholic Associations in Bologna in the Pre-War Period (1908-14) (Marcello Malpensa) Archbishop Giacomo Della Chiesa Facing the Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) (Alessandro Santagata) The Beginning of the Pontificate The Conclave of Benedict XV (1914) (Alberto Melloni) The First Encyclical: Ad beatissimi (Caterina Ciriello) Ideas of War, Ideas of Peace Churches in War, Faith under Fire (Fr d ric Gugelot) Religion in War and the Legitimization of Violence (Lucia Ceci) Italian Military Chaplains and the 'Useless Slaughter' (Andrea Crescenzi) Pope Benedict XV and Pacifism: 'An Invincible Phalanx for Peace'? (Gear id Barry) Interventionism and Neutrality in Italy The Extremist Neutrality of Guido Miglioli (Claudia Baldoli) Italian Foreign Politics at the Dawn of Benedict XV's Pontificate (Michele Marchi) 'In pro della pace': Benedict XV's Diplomatic Steps to Prevent Italy's Intervention in the Great War (Maurizio Cau) Catholic Interventionism (Guido Formigoni) Diplomacy through Aid Benedict XV: Aid to Belgium (Jan De Volder) Benedict XV and the Armenian Question (Georges-Henri Ruyssen) Aid to the Syrians (1916-17): A Failure (Florence Hellot-Bellier) The International Committee of the Red Cross, the Vatican and Prisoners of War (Mara Dissegna) Neutral Switzerland: The Hospitalization of the Wounded and the Credit Owed to Carlo Santucci (Stefano Picciaredda) The Note of 1917 The Papal Peace Note of 1917: Proposals for Armaments, Arbitration, Sanctions and Damages (Alfredo Canavero) Reshaping Borders: Europe and the Colonies in Pope Benedict XV's 1917 Peace Note (Patrick J. Houlihan) The Italian and French Bishops Dealing with the Note of 1917 (Giovanni Cavagnini) The Note of 1 August 1917 and Its Failure (Xavier Boniface) Part Two: Problems The Missions Cardinal Willem Van Rossum, Benedict XV, and the Centralization of the Pontifical Missionary Works in Rome (1918-22) (Vefie Poels & Hans de Valk) The Roncalli-Drehmanns Mission to the French and German Offices for Missionary Work (1921) (Stefano Trinchese) Maximum illud, a Missionary Turning Point? (Claude Prudhomme) The 'Chinese' Missionary Policy of the Holy See before Costantini (Giuseppe Butturini) The Re-Dimensioning of Anti-Modernism 'A Kind of Freemasonry in the Church': The Dissolution of the Sodalitium Pianum (Alejandro Mario Dieguez) Transformations of Integralist Catholicism under Benedict XV: Benigni's Network after the Dissolution of La Sapini re (Nina Valbousquet) Modernism during the Pontificate of Benedict XV: Between Rehabilitation and Condemnation (Giovanni Vian) Benedict XV and Modernism in Germany (Klaus Unterburger) Votes for Women and 'Catholic Feminism' during the Pontificate of Benedict XV (Liviana Gazzetta) The View of the People of Israel Benedict XV: The 'Children of Israel' and the 'Members of Different Religious Confessions' (Raffaella Perin) The Birth of Vatican Policy on Palestine and the Holy Sites (Paolo Zanini) Between Unionism and Ecumenism An Indecisive Inter-Confessional Situation (1914-1922) ( tienne Fouilloux) A Parallel Diplomacy? Vladimir Ghika and Catholic-Orthodox Relations in Romania during World War I (Cl mence de Rouvray) Theological Questions and Devotional Practices Religious Interpretations of War as Reflected in Prayers during World War I (Maria Paiano) Benedict XV and the Nationalization of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in France and Germany (1914-18) (Claudia Schlager) '... and yet does not touch us': A Survey of European Theology during the Pontificate of Benedict XV (Gianmaria Zamagni) Part Three: Relations France 'Trop petit'? Benedict XV in Cardinal Alfred Baudrillart's Journals and Writings (Rodolfo Rossi) A Case of Oriental Wisdom: The second ralliement (Fabrice Bouthillon) The Doulcet-Gasparri Agreement of 1920 and the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations between France and the Holy See (Audrey Virot) The Appointment of Ambassador Jonnart and the Issue of Religious Associations (Jean Vavasseur-Desperriers) Italy The Reform of Catholic Action (Liliana Ferrari) The Dissolution of the Taparellian Concept of Nationality during the Great War (Cinzia Sulas) The Role of Gaspare Colosimo and the King in the Rejection of the Gasparri Draft (Piero Doria) The Agony of the non expedit (Saretta Marotta) Benedict XV and Proto-Fascism (Alberto Guasco) Germany Benedict XV and the German Episcopate (Sascha Hinkel) The German Reception of the Peace Note (Claus Arnold) The Legacy of Boniface: The Bavarian Episcopate and the In hac tanta Encyclical (December 1918-October 1919) (Patrizio Foresta) The In hac tanta Encyclical (1919) and Peace in Europe (Letterio Mauro) Russia and Ukraine The Holy See's Humanitarian Diplomacy towards the Russian World (1914-22) (Laura Pettinaroli) Benedict XV in Search of Peace for Ukraine (Athanasius McVay) Peace in Eastern Europe (Nathalie Renoton-Beine) Benedict XV and the Caucasus (Simona Merlo) The Other European Nations Benedict XV, the Habsburg Empire and the First Republic of Austria (Francesco Ferrari) Benedict XV and the British Empire (1914-22) (John F. Pollard) Benedict XV and Czechoslovakia (?uboslav Hromj k) Benedict XV and Poland (Roberto Morozzo della Rocca) The Irish War of Independence (Alberto Belletti) Benedict XV and Yugoslavia (1914-22) (Igor Salmi?) Finland and the Catholic Church during the Pontificate of Benedict XV (Milla Bergstr m & Suvy Rytty) The Non-European Countries Appeals to Wilson to Avoid the United States' Entry into War (Liliosa Azara) Benedict XV and the Mexican Revolution (Paolo Valvo) The Holy See's Relations with Brazil (1917-19) (Italo Domingos Santirocchi) Japan on the Vatican's Radar (Olivier Sibre) Part Four: Legacy Benedict XV's Men Benedict XV and the Cardinals (Roberto Regoli) Eugenio Pacelli: Benedict XV's Man of Peace (Philippe Chenaux) A Papal Envoy on the International Stage: Edmund Aloysius Walsh, SJ (Marisa Patulli Trythall) Benedict XV, Father Gemelli, and the Foundation of the Universit Cattolica (Maria Bocci) Bonaventura Cerretti and the Impossible Missions (Marialuisa Lucia Sergio) Europe for Peace and the Aftermath of Versailles The Failure to Revise the Treaty of London (July 1918) (Sergio Marchisio) New Diplomatic Relations and New Agreements in Europe (Stefan Samerski) Post Mortem The Death of the Pope in the Twentieth Century, Change and Continuity: The Example of Benedict XV ( douard Coquet) The 1922 Conclave and the Return of Pope Pius (Lorenza Lullini) The Statue of Benedict XV in Istanbul: The East's Gratitude to the Charitable Pope (Rinaldo Marmara) An Image-Building Failure: Biographies in the Era of Pius XI (Giulia Grossi) From Fernand Hayward's Un Pape m connu to the Spoleto Congress (1955-63) (Federico Ruozzi) Benedict XV and the Founding of the Pontifical Oriental Institute (1917): Foresight, Intuition, Hindsight (Edward G. Farrugia) Continuity and Discontinuity: Pius X, Benedict XV, and Pius XI (Annibale Zambarbieri) Conclusions The Benedict XV Moment (Denis Pelletier) Abstracts Name Index
Homiliary of Paul the Deacon. Religious and Cultural Reform in Carolingian Europe
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 339 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 3 col., 13 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9782503577913.
Summary As one of the most widely used products of Charlemagne's religious and cultural reforms, the homiliary of Paul the Deacon is a unique monument in the history of Western Europe. Completed around AD 797, this collection of patristic homilies and sermons shaped the religious faith and liturgical practices of the churches in Carolingian Europe and those of countless other churches over the course of a millennium of use. Until now, scholarly study of the homiliary has rested on seven partial witnesses to the collection. This study, however, draws on over 80 newly identified witnesses from the Carolingian period, while providing a brief guide and handlist to hundreds of later manuscripts. It replaces the current scholarly reconstruction of the homiliary, discusses the significance of the collection's liturgical structure and provisions, and considers the composition of the homiliary in the context of Charlemagne's reforms and Paul's patron-client relationships. The study also brings together evidence for the production and use of this text in thirty-three Carolingian monasteries, cathedrals, and churches. The book then addresses the homiliary's theological character: the contents of the homiliary reflected a concern for expressing and defending orthodox doctrine at Charlemagne's court against Trinitarian and Christological heresies, as well as an urgent attention to moral reform in the light of a belief in the imminence of divine judgement. Finally, the study demonstrates the varied uses of Paul's collection and its historical legacy. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 0.1: The homiliary in scholarship: editions and reconstructions 0.2: The homiliary in scholarship: The nature of the Epistola Generalis 0.3: The homiliary in scholarship: The history of preaching 0.4: The homiliary in scholarship: Anglo-Saxon England 0.6: Manuscript identifications and the advent of digital research 0.7: The Carolingian witnesses to Paul's homiliary 0.8: Outline of the Book's Argument Chapter 1: Curae Nobis Est: The manuscript witnesses and Paul's text 1.1: The manuscript base 1.2: General features of the extant manuscripts 1.3: The witnesses transmitting the prefatory material and Carolingian witnesses 1.4: The original structure of PD: the winter volume 1.5: The winter volume: contested entries 1.6: The original structure of PD: the summer volume 1.7: Conclusion Chapter 2: Per totius anni circulum: Paul's liturgical year 2.1: 'Individual Sundays and the rest of the divine feasts' 2.2: The sanctoral cycle 2.3: The purpose of a limited sanctoral cycle 2.4: 'Diverse fasts' and other occasions 2.5: The greater and lesser litanies 2.6: In traditione symboli: Catechesis and creed in Lent 2.7: Anniversaries of death 2.8: The Sundays after Pentecost 2.9: Paul's work, the Christian year, and the influence of other liturgical books 2.10: A?specific liturgical year? (786-787 and 797-798) 2.11: Conclusion 2.12: Outline of the Winter?Volume: Advent to Holy Saturday 2.13: Outline of the Summer?Volume (A): Easter to Saint Matthew 2.14: Outline of the Summer?Volume (B): Commune sanctorum (The Common of Saints) Chapter 3: En iutus patris Benedicti: the composition of the homiliary 3.1: Paul's representation of his work in the preface 3:2: The dedicatory verse (Summo apici rerum) 3.3: The prefatory letter (Epistola Generalis) 3.4: The descriptive introduction (Incipiunt omeliae) 3.5: The homiliary's organisational features: Rubrics, readings, authors 3.6: The collection's contents: Homilies and sermons from surprising Fathers 3.7: The origins of Paul's texts: The state of Carolingian libraries 3.8: A?wandering monk? Paul on the road and in the scriptorium 3.9: Paul and patronage, earthly and heavenly 3.10: Dating Paul's collection: the late 790s Chapter 4: Per sacra domicilia Christi: the dissemination of the homiliary 4.1: The Epistola Generalis and dissemination 4.2: Capitulary legislation and the homiliary's dissemination 4.3: Manuscript production, the physical constraints on dissemination 4.4: Difficulties for 'mass production': The example of Tours, the setting of the court 4.5: Varied evidence for dissemination 4.6: Literary evidence 4.7: St?Wandrille and Benediktbeuern 4.8: St?Riquier 4.9: Lorsch 4.10: St?Gall 4.11: Reichenau 4.12: Bobbio 4.13: Passau 4.14: Monte Cassino 4.15: St?Calixtus 4.16: Fulda 4.17: Lyon 4.18: Weissenburg 4.19: Many inconclusive references, but 14 probable 4.20: Manuscript evidence (A): 22 clear palaeographical identifications, 12 unclear 4.21: Manuscript Evidence (B): Transmission of textual variants implies further copies 4.22: Textual variants in the summer volume 4.23: Textual variants in the winter volume 4.24: Paul's two volumes often circulated separately 4.25: Conclusion Chapter 5: Optima decerpens: the theology of Paul's selections 5.1: The emphases of the collection: Gospel exegesis, doctrinal sermons 5.2: The Bible in Paul's collection: texts and theory 5.3: The Admonitio Generalis and Carolingian theology 5.4: God the Trinity 5.5: Definitions of the Trinitarian relations 5.6: Christology and Chalcedon 5.7: Looser Christological formulations: Origen and 'Maximus?II' 5.8: Eschatology 5.9: Gregory the Great on the impending judgment 5.10: The resurrection of the dead: Flesh and hope 5.11: Eschatology in PD and the Admonitio Generalis 5.12: Ethics and imitation 5.13: Christian ethical practices: fasting, confession, almsgiving, care for the dead 5.14: Conclusion Chapter 6: Tradimus: The use of the homiliary 6.1: Crafting new collections 6.2: Amplified homiliaries (a): more of Paul's 'canon' of Fathers 6.3: Expanded homiliaries (b): more Augustine 6.4: Expanded homiliaries (c): new authors, new collections 6.5: Abbreviated homiliaries (a): one entry per occasion 6.6: Abbreviated homiliaries (b): special feast days only 6.7: Abbreviated homiliaries (c): Sundays only 6.8: Abbreviated homiliaries (d): saints only 6.9: Abbreviated homiliaries (e): sermons only 6.10: Extraction 6.11: Abbreviated readings 6.12: Decorated texts and the 'economy' of monasticism 6.13: Private study or meditation? 6.14: Dwellings and travel of intellectual elite in places PD was known 6.15: Study and annotation 6.16: Private study certain 6.17: Preaching and regulatory material (capitularies, councils, statutes, rules) 6.18: Preaching and the manuscript evidence 6.19: Liturgical reading 6.20: Liturgical reading and manuscript evidence 6.21: Other uses: storing prayers and community memory 6.22: Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1: Paul's dedicatory verse, Summo apici rerum Appendix 2: Charlemagne's prefatory letter, the Epistola generalis Appendix 3: the descriptive introduction, incipiunt omeliae Appendix 4: Paul's laudatory verse, Utere felix Appendix 5: Critical edition of crucial rubrics PD Appendix 6: The manuscript witnesses of Paul the Deacon's homiliary Bibliography Index of Manuscripts General Index
Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism - with a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines
, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 687 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:1 col., 3 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9782503589602.
Summary The seventh-century Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines (Someone's Rule for Virgins), which was most likely written by Jonas of Bobbio, the hagiographer of the Irish monk Columbanus, forms an ideal point of departure for writing a new history of the emergence of Western monasticism understood as a history of the individual and collective attempt to pursue eternal salvation. The book provides a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and a roadmap for such a new history revolving around various aspects of monastic discipline, such as the agency of the community, the role of enclosure, authority and obedience, space and boundaries, confession and penance, sleep and silence, excommunication and expulsion. TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary The book consists of two sections. The first is a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines, a seventh-century Frankish monastic rule for nuns, along with the short treatise De accedendo ad Deum, which most likely formed a part of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines. The second section is a study on the transformations and diversification of monastic theology, concepts of communal life and monastic discipline in the early medieval period. It revolves around the Regula cuisudam ad uirgines in its historical and intertextual context. The study is divided four parts that are related to the four key words of the title of the book (Community, Space, Discipline, and Salvation). Each part consists of a chapter that makes an argument about the place of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines in intertextual contexts and a chapter that applies these arguments in a historical inquiry. Introduction Section I: Edition and Translation of the Regua cuiusdam ad uirgines Section II: Study Part I: Community revolves around the question to what extent the monastic community can serve as an agent of the collective and individual pursuit of salvation Chapter 1: Quidam pater - quaedam mater? The Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and its author provides a survey of the monastic milieu in which the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines was written, discusses potential authors and stakeholders in the monastic foundation that may have been addressed by the Rule and shows on the basis of semantic and stylistic similarities and shared content and ideas that Jonas of Bobbio, the author of the Vita Columbani, is to be considered the author of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines as well. Chapter 2: The dying nuns of Faremoutiers: the regula in action argues that Jonas of Bobbio's description of the deaths of the nuns of Faremoutiers, which is a part of Book 2 of his Vita Columbani, and the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines represent the same monastic program, once presented as a "narrated rule", once as a normative text. The Faremoutiers episodes are closely modelled after Book 4 of the Dialogi of Gregory the Great and can be read as a critical response to Gregory's eschatology and his notion of pursuing salvation by living a virtuous life. After having fleshed out the parallels and differences between the Dialogi and the Faremoutiers miracles, the chapter analyzes each episode of the Faremoutiers miracles, showing that Jonas wrote his monastic program in a highly sophisticated manner into stories describing the deaths occurring in the founding generation of nuns in Faremoutiers - deaths that were most likely still remembered by the primary audience of the Vita Columbani. Part II: Space discusses the role of space and boundaries for the monastic pursuit of salvation and explores the origins of the medieval cloister Chapter 3 The Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines, a supplement to Caesarius' Rule for Nuns? compares the provisions of Caesarius of Arles' Rule for Nuns with the Regula cuisudam ad uirgines and argues that Jonas wrote his Rule as an expansion and revision of Caesarius work: an "early medieval" update of a "late antique" monastic program, as it were. Chapter 4: Enclosure re-opened: Caesarius, Jonas, and the invention of sacred space discusses the evolution of Caesarius of Arles' notion of enclosure as salvific instrument and then shows how Jonas of Bobbio tried to face the aporias of Caeasarius' theology of enclosure by expanding it towards a system of total control of all physical, social and corporeal boundaries and the implementation of various enclosures. Part III: Discipline provides a historical survey of the evolution of various aspects of monastic discipline in early medieval monastic rules leading to the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines. Chapter 5: The Regula Benedicti in seventh-century Francia explores the role of the Regula Benedicti in Frankish monasticism in the aftermath of Columbanus and shows how Jonas used and revised the Regula Benedicti and refuted some of his main theological premises. Chapter 6: The Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and its context describes the history of the topics addressed in each chapter of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and provides a detailed commentary to the Rule itself, showing how Jonas rewrote the Regula Benedicti. I discuss every chapter of the Rule but put a special emphasis on the following topics: abbatial authority, hierarchy, boundaries, love, confession, silence, work, sleep, excommunication, and family ties. Part IV: Salvation focusses on the short treatise De accedendo ad Deum which provides a unique theological rationale why monastic discipline enables monks and nuns to pray effectively and to attain eternal salvation. Chapter 7: De accedendo ad Deum - a lost chapter of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines? shows that De accedendo was most likely a lost chapter of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and thus written by Jonas of Bobbio as well. Chapter 8: Prompto corde orandum: the theological program of De accedendo analyzes the theological argument that monastic discipline enable a nun or monk to approach God through prayer, which forms one of the most sophisticated early medieval responses to the challenge of the doctrine of prevenient grace and the "semi-Pelagian" debate. De accedendo essentially explains how the monastic pursuit of salvation works. Conclusion Three appendices provide textual evidence for ascribing the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines to Jonas of Bobbio and to document the reception of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines in the eighth-century Life of Bertila. Bibliography of manuscripts, sources, and literature Index uerborum
