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Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, vol. 318A
Gerardus Magnus
Opera omnia IV, 2: Subsidia ad epistolas
Rijcklof Hofman, Marinus van den Berg (eds)
- Pages: approx. 300 p.
- Size:155 x 245 mm
- Language(s):Latin
- Publication Year:2025
- € 220,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-61629-2
- Hardback
- Forthcoming (Feb/25)
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This first truly critical edition of Geert Grote’s collected letters offers a unique glimpse into the practical and theological aspects of the Devotio moderna movement during the latter half of the fourteenth century.
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Rijcklof Hofman is editor of the Gerardi Magni Opera Omnia at the Titus Brandsma Instituut, Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Earlier editions include Ioannis Rusbrochii Ornatus spiritualis desponsationis Gerardo Magno interprete (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis, 172) (2000), Versiones latinae mysticorum (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis,172A) (2021), Gerardi Magni Sermo ad clerum Traiectensem de focaristis – Opera minora contra focaristas (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis, 235) (2011), Gerardi Magni Scripta contra simoniam et proprietarios (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis, 235A) (2016) and Gerardi Magni Contra turrim Traiectensem (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis, 192) (2003), 745-814.
Marinus van den Berg has published several Medieval Dutch texts, including De Noordnederlandse historiebijbel. Een kritische editie met inleiding en aantekeningen van Hs. Ltk 231 uit de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek (1998) and Het Gaesdonckse-traktatenhandschrift. Olim hs. Gaesdonck, Collegium Augustinianum, ms. 16 (2005).
Together they have published Gerardi Magni Opera Omnia, Pars II.2 and V.2.
Summary
CC CM, 318-318A present the collected letters of Geert Grote (Gerardus Magnus, 1340-1384), founder of the late medieval Dutch Church reform movement Devotio moderna. The collection consists of 83 letters, most of them written by Grote, but some of them by his correspondents to or about him; three of them have never been edited before. As so often, Grote blurs various genres, and as a consequence some letters travel under the moniker ‘letter’, although they can better be characterized as small treatises or as pieces of juridical advice (consilia). Grote’s correspondence with well over thirty individuals from a variety of secular, monastic, and ecclesiastical backgrounds in the Low Countries and beyond offers a unique insight into the practical, pastoral dimensions of the Devotio moderna movement as well as the theological concerns of Grote and his contemporaries.
Each of the edited letters is accompanied by an introduction, some of those written in both Latin and Middle Dutch by an apparatus comparatiuus, indicating in detail all discrepancies between the translation and the source text. Extensive introductions complete the two volumes.
