Hilduin of Saint-Denis: The Passio S. Dionysii in Prose and Verse

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34165-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 51, 898 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1436 g

Reihe: Mittellateinische Studien Und

Hilduin (c. 785-c. 860), abbot of Saint-Denis in Paris and archchaplain to Louis the Pious, was one of the leading scholars and administrators of the Carolingian empire. He was the first to translate the mystical Greek writings of the pseudo-Dionysius into Latin; he then identified this Dionysius with the first bishop of Paris of that name, and assigned his episcopacy and martyrdom to 96 A.D. Hilduin composed a life of St Dionysius in prose and verse: the prose work has not been edited since 1580, and the verse work - a major new Carolingian Latin poem - has never before been printed. Both texts are accompanied by facing-page English translation and detailed commentary; eleven appendices contain editions of the various texts on which Hilduin drew in compiling his fictitious account of St Dionysius.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lapidge, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Mittel- & Neulateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Lapidge, Ph.D. 1971, Litt.D. 1987, Hon.D.Litt. 2011. Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Cambridge; author or editor of 50 books and 250 articles; Fellow of the British Academy; Corresponding Fellow of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Munich) and Accademia dei Lincei (Rome).