The Letters of Peter the Venerable. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Giles Constable. 2 Vols.

PETER THE VENERABLE (ca. 1092-1156); CONSTABLE, Giles (ed.):

Published by Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967., 1967

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First Edition. Frontispiece, x, 1 leaf, 450 pp; map; vi, 1 leaf, 427 pp; map. Original cloth. A Near Fine set, in near fine dust jackets (unclipped). Harvard Historical Studies LXXVIII. '[A]nother example of the very fruitful care expended in recent years on re-editing twelfth-century epistolary collections. The work is laborious and calls for great skill and learning. The literary taste of the time, the confused textual transmission, the absence of dates, obscurities about facts which were familiar to the correspondents -- all make such work a delicate business. Peter the Venerable's letters, like those of St. Anselm, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, John of Salisbury, and Peter of Blois, have been in print for centuries but they can only be used with confidence by historians after scientific and sensitive re-editing. Professor Constable has risen to the occasion with an admirable edition. . He publishes 193 letters (including a few from Peter's correspondents) found in medieval collections and in the Paris printed edition of 1522' (C. R. Cheney, Review for The English Historical Review, Vol. 85, No. 334, Jan. 1970), pp. 118-121).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Letters of Peter the Venerable. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Giles Constable. 2 Vols.
• Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine