Radulphus Ardens: The Questions on the Sacraments. Speculum uniuersale 8.31–92. Edited and Translated by Christopher P. Evans

Positioning Radulphus Ardens in the story of the twelfth-century renaissance is not easy, but recent work seems to fix him in the period towards the end of the century, perhaps in the era of John Baldwin’s Masters, Princes and Merchants, when Simon of Tournai and Peter Lombard were natural sources f...

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Main Author: Evans, Gillian 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: 2011
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 374-375
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:Positioning Radulphus Ardens in the story of the twelfth-century renaissance is not easy, but recent work seems to fix him in the period towards the end of the century, perhaps in the era of John Baldwin’s Masters, Princes and Merchants, when Simon of Tournai and Peter Lombard were natural sources for him to use (and he used them liberally and verbatim). The introduction brings the story convincingly together., Radulphus’ ‘great work’, uncompleted at his death about 1200, is known as the Speculum universale, though that was probably not his title. The idea was apparently to write a comprehensive manual of ethics in an era when the needs of pastoral theology were attracting growing interest. The Patrologia Latina versions of some of Ralph’s homilies show him to have been an active preacher.
ISSN:1477-4607
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jts/flr005