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Vincent of Beauvais: The Moral Instruction of a Prince
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THE MORAL INSTRUCTION OF A PRINCE is the first part of Vincent of Beauvais’s thirteenth century didactic work, Opus... More > universale de statu principis. Written to advise Louis IX on the moral 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
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Isidore of Seville's ETYMOLOGIES
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Encyclopedic work of Isidore of Seville, now in a hardback edition of one volume.
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Vincent of Beauvais: The Education of Noble Children
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Vincent of Beauvais’s thirteenth century educational treatise, De Eruditione Filiorum Nobilium, was written at the request... More > of Margaret of Provence, wife of Louis IX, as an aid in bringing up 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
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Alcuin
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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... More > ON VIRTUES AND VICES, written as a handbook for Wido, Commander of the Breton March; and the DIALOGUE between ALCUIN and PEPIN, son of Charlemagne < Less
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YES AND NO: Peter Abelard's SIC ET NON
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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... More > fragment. Since then, another full MS and eight fragments have come to light. 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
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Three Lives and a Rule
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The life of Hildegard, written by the monks Godfrey and Theodoric, with Hildegard's lives of Disibod and Rupert, and her... More > Explanation of the Rule of Saint Benedict. < Less
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The Life of Saint Gall
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The Life of Saint Gall, written by Wettin of Reichenau, tells of his journey from Ireland with Saint Columbanus and his... More > settlement in what is now Switzerland. < Less
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Saxon Holy Women in Carolingian Times
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English translation of the Latin VITAE ('Lives') of Queen Matilda (wife of Henry the Fowler and mother of the emperor Otto... More > I), Hathumoda (Abbess of Gandersheim), and Liutberga (an anchoress at Wendhausen), three influential women in 9th and 10th century Saxony. < Less
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Book of Divine Works of Hildegard of Bingen
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Hildegard of Bingen's third visionary book, LIBER DIVINORUM OPERUM, describes the human being as a microcosm, reflecting the... More > greater cosmos. She deals with the interplay of the elements inside and outside the human body, the relationship of body and soul and virtues and vices, and gives an overview of biblical history. < Less
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Allegories in All Holy Scripture: the complete translation of Allegoriae in Universam Sacram Scripturam, formerly attributed to Hrabanus Maurus
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An anonymous 12th century work, long attributed to the 9th century bishop and abbot, Hrabanus Maurus, presents an... More > alphabetical listing of words used in the Bible, with varied allegorical meanings. < Less
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About Priscilla Throop

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So thorough,
so succinct,
so literate,
so straightforward and true.

Dropping in and out of various institutions, at Vassar she was adjudged by a fellow student as being "just like Suzuki Beane", while her English professor said that having her in class was "like having Holden Caulfield", and he "didn't know what to do about it". At URI she was referred to as "the girl who looks like Bob Dylan" and asked if she were "one of the Rolling Stones". A classics professor at UVM was amazed at the quality of her translation -- in an exam: "So smooth!" At EDS she was said to handle her "great literacy and learning so easily" and to have "splendid common sense", "highly intelligent wit" and "ease with historical materials" and to be "wonderfully open and gracious, with a touch of wry humor". Having been told by UT's Centre for Medieval Studies that "around here a little Latin goes a long way, and you've got lots! ", she passed, upon matriculation, both the MA the PhD level Latin exams.