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Isidore's SYNONYMS and DIFFERENCES By Priscilla Throop
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Isidore's SYNONYMS, or Lamentations of a Sinful Soul, contains a dialogue between MAN and REASON in which the complaints of MAN and the responses of REASON are rendered in several synonymous... More > versions; the second section is a discourse on vice and virtue. The DIFFERENCES distinguish between meanings of words. Book I treats words (generally synonyms and homonyms) which might be open to confusion. Book II expounds differences in theological terms, e.g., 'God' and Lord', 'Soul' and 'Spirit'.< Less
SYNONYMS and DIFFERENCES By Isidore of Seville
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Isidore's SYNONYMS, or Lamentations of a Sinful Soul, contains a dialogue between MAN and REASON in which the complaints of MAN and the responses of REASON are rendered in several synonymous... More > versions; the second section is a discourse on vice and virtue. The DIFFERENCES distinguish between meanings of words. Book I treats words (generally synonyms and homonyms) which might be open to confusion. Book II expounds differences in theological terms, e.g., 'God' and Lord', 'Soul' and 'Spirit'.< Less
Causes and Cures By Hildegard of Bingen
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Hildegard of Bingen's medical/visionary work, Causae et Curae,describes the world and man's place in it. Holistic medicine and quantum physics intertwine astoundingly in this 12th century work,... More > translated completely, from Latin to English, by Priscilla Throop, translator of Hildegard's Physica,Isidore's Etymologies, Abelard's Sic et Non and Aelfric's Grammar and Glossary.< Less
Allegories in All Holy Scriptures By Anonymous 12th Century
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An anonymous 12th century work, long attributed to the 9th century bishop and abbot, Hrabanus Maurus, presents an alphabetical listing of words used in the Bible, with varied allegorical meanings. As... More > the author states, "When Scripture exposes the mysteries of faith through the exercise of allegory, it lifts up the edifice of the mind with the love of truth" and "One and the same thing can have not only a different meaning, but sometimes an opposite meaning in holy Scripture".< Less
Allegories in All Holy Scripture: the complete translation of Allegoriae in Universam Sacram Scripturam, formerly attributed to Hrabanus Maurus By Priscilla Throop
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An anonymous 12th century work, long attributed to the 9th century bishop and abbot, Hrabanus Maurus, presents an alphabetical listing of words used in the Bible, with varied allegorical meanings.
Vincent of Beauvais: The Moral Instruction of a Prince By Priscilla Throop
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THE MORAL INSTRUCTION OF A PRINCE is the first part of Vincent of Beauvais’s thirteenth century didactic work, Opus universale de statu principis. Written to advise Louis IX on the moral... More > aspects of wise kingship, it was intended to contain four treatises. This and the fourth section, THE EDUCATION OF NOBLE CHILDREN, are the only parts of the work extant. Indeed it is not known that the other sections were ever completed. THE TWELVE ABUSES OF THE WORLD is the 7th century treatise on social and political morality of an anonymous Irish monk. It has been wrongly ascribed to Cyprian and Augustine and Patrick. The 12 abuses are: a wise man without works, an old man without religion, a young man without obedience, a rich man without charity, a woman without modesty, a nobleman without virtue, an argumentative Christian, a proud pauper, an unjust king, a neglectful bishop, a populace without discipline, a people without law.< Less
Isidore of Seville's ETYMOLOGIES By Priscilla Throop
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Encyclopedic work of Isidore of Seville, now in a hardback edition of one volume.
Vincent of Beauvais: The Education of Noble Children By Priscilla Throop
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Vincent of Beauvais’s thirteenth century educational treatise, De Eruditione Filiorum Nobilium, was written at the request of Margaret of Provence, wife of Louis IX, as an aid in bringing up... More > her children. Organized by topics, this florilegium cites (along with Biblical passages) classical writings, patristic literature, Christian-Latin poets, scholastic and Arabic writings, and miscellaneous Medieval literature. Meant to be the fourth part of a longer work, an 'opus universale' (of which only one other part, 'The Moral Instruction of a Prince' is extant), it is a valuable mirror for the education of children today.< Less
Alcuin By Priscilla Throop
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The LIFE of Alcuin of York, head of Charlemagne's Palace School at Aachen, written by an anonymous monk; Alcuin's treatise ON VIRTUES AND VICES, written as a handbook for Wido, Commander of the... More > Breton March; and the DIALOGUE between ALCUIN and PEPIN, son of Charlemagne< Less
YES AND NO: Peter Abelard's SIC ET NON By Priscilla Throop
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Peter Abelard's SIC ET NON lay in obscurity until the 19th century, when Victor Cousin discovered a full manuscript and a fragment. Since then, another full MS and eight fragments have come to light.... More > Abelard's SIC ET NON presents 158 theological questions, followed by citations from various Church fathers, councils, and creeds. These conflict in their discussion of the matter at hand, some SIC (YES) others NON (NO). Abelard includes the "Gelasian Decretals", showing that all of his citations are from approved works. Abelard was condemned as a heretic and sentenced to perpetual silence (1141), and his writings were included on the list of prohibited works (1563). SIC ET NON is a gem of theological education.< Less