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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
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
