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Martin of Tours is one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages and, accordingly, his hagiographical afterlife is tremendously rich. In the twelfth century, Martinian studies flourished again and Guibert Martin of Gembloux († 1213) was an outstanding collector of ancient and modern material about his favourite patron, which he used as a basis for various works of his own. In the centre of this biographical and didactical project Guibert placed two rhythmical poems, which he dedicated to the life of Martin (Libellus panegericus) and an impressive series of his venerators (Libellus de specialibus piissimi patroni veneratoribus). In this book Peter Orth provides the first critical edition of both poems with about 12,000 rhythmical lines, together with an introduction, commentary and indices.
Price: $168.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte
Publication Date:
02 February 2017
ISBN: 9789004335608
Format: Hardcover
"Sans doute comprendra-t-on mieux la spiritualité et les intentions de Guibert de Gembloux si on s'en réfère non seulement à sa correspondance et la Vita en prose tardive (1250 et après 1212), mais aussi à ses oeuvres en vers où il se découvre plus naturellement. Cette édition vient donc à son heure pour achever le portrait de ce grand moine et abbé qui voulut marcher et inviter à marcher sur les traces du patriarche Martin de Tours". P.M. Bogaert, in Revue bénédictine, vol. 2 (2020).
Peter Orth, Ph.D. (1992), was appointed Professor for Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Cologne in 2006. His main research areas are Medieval Latin poetry, epistolography, crusade literature, the history of Latin prosody and grammar in the medieval and early modern periods, as well as Latin palaeography and editorial technique.