Opus Arduum Valde : : A Wycliffite Commentary on the Book of Revelation.

• Superior document: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
• Author: Cegna, Romolo.
• TeilnehmendeR: Galle, Christoph.; Schäufele, Wolf-Friedrich.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: Latin
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (703 pages)

"The Opus arduum valde is a Latin commentary on the Book of Revelation, written in England by an unknown scholarly author in the years 1389-1390. The book originated from the early Wycliffite movement and reflects its experience of persecution in apocalyptic terms. In England it soon fell into oblivion, but was adopted by radical exponents of the fifteenth-century Bohemian Hussites. In the sixteenth century Luther obtained a copy of the Opus arduum valde which he had printed in Wittenberg with his own preface in 1528. This remarkable document of religious dissent in late medieval Europe, highly regarded in Lollard and Hussite studies, is now for the first time made available in a critical edition"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Introduction. The Opus arduum valde: Origin-Character-Tradition-Edition (Schäufele) -- ‎1. Opus arduum valde: The Title -- ‎2. The Author -- ‎2.1. His Name -- ‎2.2. His Captivity -- ‎2.3. His Self-Understanding as an Interpreter of Scripture -- ‎2.4. The Author as an Academic and a Preacher -- ‎3. The Current Situation -- ‎4. Date and Place of Writing -- ‎5. Sources -- ‎6. The Prologues -- ‎7. Content and Main Aspects -- ‎7.1. The Method of Scriptural Interpretation -- ‎7.2. The Antichrist -- ‎7.3. The Release of Satan -- ‎7.4. Pseudo-apostles and Supporters of the Antichrist -- ‎7.5. The Mendicant Orders -- ‎7.6. The Donation of Constantine -- ‎7.7. The Despenser Crusade -- ‎7.8. Indulgences -- ‎7.9. Lex evangelica and Ecclesia primitiva -- ‎7.10. The Evangelical Preachers -- ‎7.11. The Laymen -- ‎7.12. Expectations for the Future -- ‎8. The Theological Profile of the oav -- ‎8.1. Common Points with Wyclif and the Lollards -- ‎8.2. Common Points with the Spiritual Franciscans -- ‎9. An Attempt to Identify the Author -- ‎10. The oav in Bohemia -- ‎11. The Manuscripts -- ‎12. Reconstruction of the History of Transmission and Formation of a Stemma Codicum -- ‎Excursus: The Transmission of oav 7 -- ‎13. The Edition by Martin Luther -- ‎14. Editorial Principles -- ‎Opus arduum valde -- ‎[Prologues] -- ‎[Apocalypsis i] -- ‎[Apocalypsis ii] -- ‎[Apocalypsis iii] -- ‎[Apocalypsis iv] -- ‎[Apocalypsis v] -- ‎[Apocalypsis vi] -- ‎[Apocalypsis vii] -- ‎[Apocalypsis viii] -- ‎[Apocalypsis ix] -- ‎[Apocalypsis x] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xi] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xii] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xiii] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xiv] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xv] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xvi] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xvii] -- ‎[Apokalypsis xviii] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xix] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xx] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xxi] -- ‎[Apocalypsis xxii] -- ‎Bibliography.

‎Index of Persons and Works -- ‎Index of Places -- ‎Index of Biblical References.