Vitae, Miracula, Translatio et alia Hagiographica sancti Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis

R.I.A. Nip (ed). Pages: 356 p. Language(s):Latin, English. Publication Year:2015. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-05301-1. Hardback --- SUMMARY The hagiographers Lisiard and Hariulf pictured St Arnulf, Bishop of Soissons and supposed founder of the Abbey of Oudenburg in Flanders (d. 1087), as a peacemaker. During his life, the holy man fell victim to the struggle for power between secular and ecclesiastical princes. Also Lisiard and Hariulf witnessed a great deal of violence as the result of the Investiture Controversy and communal revolts. Shortly after St Arnulf’s death, Lisiard started to compose the saint’s Life, which Hariulf adapted in the first decades of the twelfth century. Both worked together to achieve his canonization, which was realized in 1121. This volume makes available some important narrative sources for the history of Flanders and Northern France in the eleventh and twelfth century. In particular, these present an interesting insight into ideas on power and violence in theory and practice. Besides, the texts in a modern edition provide the means of enlarging our understanding of hagiographic methods. TABLE OF CONTENTS Anonymus monachus Aldenburgensis (dubium an Johannes de Biervliet) — Miracula metrica (post transitum beati Arnulphi facta) — ed. R. Nip Anonymus monachus Aldenburgensis (ut videtur) — Carmen et orationes Arnulpho episcopo Suessionensi dicendae — ed. R. Nip Anonymus monachus Aldenburgensis (ut videtur) — Hymnus 'Pange lingua' (in honorem Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis ad exemplum hymni a Venantio Fortunato confectus) — ed. R. Nip Hagiographica medii aevi — Genealogia sancti Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis — ed. R. Nip Hagiographica medii aevi — Sermo de vita sancti Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis — ed. R. Nip Hariulfus Aldenburgensis — Epistulae III — ed. R. Nip Hariulfus Aldenburgensis et Lisiardus Suessionensis — Miracula et translatio Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis (id est: Vita Arnulphi, editio altera, liber III) — ed. R. Nip Hariulfus Aldenburgensis revisor 'Vitae' quam scripsit Lisiardus Suessionensis — Vita Arnulfi episcopi Suessionensis, vita aucta et redacta (editio altera, libri I et II) — ed. R. Nip Lisiardus Suessionensis — Vita Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis, editio prior (sec. textum quem vulgavit Laurentius Surius anno 1573) — ed. R. Nip Lisiardus Suessionensis — Vita Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis, editio prior — ed. R. Nip.