Petrus Abaelardus: Sermones. Edited by L. J. Engels and C. Vande Veire
This book was not finished when L. J. Engels died in 2017; we owe its completion to the devoted work of a team from Brepols. It was able therefore to contain its own review. In a fine tribute to a scholar distinguished both for his research and for his services to Dutch universities, C. H. Kneepkens...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 1021-1023 |
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| Summary: | This book was not finished when L. J. Engels died in 2017; we owe its completion to the devoted work of a team from Brepols. It was able therefore to contain its own review. In a fine tribute to a scholar distinguished both for his research and for his services to Dutch universities, C. H. Kneepkens (p. vi) justly calls the edition a ‘model of acuity, precision, patience and sheer graft’. (I do not imagine that Engels was responsible for ‘Operus’ in the list of sigla on p. 2.) Engels lavished astonishing care and learning not only on the establishment of the text, but on the identification of Abelard’s sources. In three levels above the traditional apparatus criticus (see pp. lxxxii-lxxxiv), he gave references to the Bible, to patristic and later sources (Augustine and Jerome are naturally prominent here), and internally to similar passages in Abelard’s own works. The indexes summarize most of this invaluable material (pp. 423-500), with the major (and regrettable) exception of that from Abelard himself, which Engels constantly used to elucidate and emend the text of the sermons; this third level of the apparatus makes it clear how intricately the sermons interweave with the rest of the oeuvre. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab108 |