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T1 Radulphus Ardens: The Questions on the Sacraments. Speculum uniuersale 8.31–92. Edited and Translated by Christopher P. Evans
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 62
IS 1
SP 374
OP 375
A1 Evans, Gillian 1944-
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783728728
AB 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.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flr005