The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516) : : the renaissance of monastic humanism / / Noel L. Brann.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
• VerfasserIn: Brann, Noel L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : E.J. Brill,, [1981]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 1981
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Abbreviations of collected works -- PART A TRITHEMIUS' WORLDLY PILGRIMAGE AND HIS LOVE OF LEARNING -- I. The Sponheim period (1482-1506) -- A. The pre-Sponheim years (1462-82) -- 1. The miraculous dream of the two tablets -- 2. The miraculous snowstorm and Trithemius' advent into Sponheim -- B. The fulfilment of the dream (1482-1505) -- 1. The bibliophile -- 2. The author -- 3. The visitors -- C. The Cologne and Berlin interlude (1505-06) -- II. The Würzburg period (1506-16) -- A. Trithemius' resignation from Sponheim and assumption of the Würzburg abbacy -- 1. The persisting resentment -- 2. The indignation of Trithemius' disciples -- 3. The struggle for adjustment -- B. The resumption of Trithemius' literary program -- 1. The catalogues of his writings -- 2. The princely patrons -- a. Trithemius and Joachim of Brandenburg -- b. Trithemius and the Emperor Maximilian -- C. Trithemius' death and interment -- PART B TRITHEMIUS' SPIRITUAL AND MENTAL PILGRIMAGE -- III. The Sponheim period and the doctrine of monastic erudition -- A. Vera philosophia Christianorum: the accord between love and knowledge -- B. Trithemius' campaign to renovate the ancient ideal of vera eruditio monastica -- 1. A tenth century prototype: Diethmar of Hirsau -- 2. The "immoderate" love of books -- 3. Scriptural study and the summa philosophia monachorum: the tension between studium and curiositas -- a. The Exhortationes ad monachos (1486) -- b. The Institutio vitae sacerdotalis (1486) and the instruction of Nicolaus de Merneck -- c. The De regimine claustralium ( = Commentarius in s. Benedicti regulam) (1486) -- d. The Liber penthicus and the De viris illustribus ordinis s. Benedicti (1492-93) -- e. The De laude scriptorum manualium (1492).

1) The background: the invention of printing -- 2) The text -- f. The De laudibus s. Annae (1494) -- 4. True erudition and the shift to negative theology: the Bursfeld orations (1490-1500) -- C. Trithemius as a monastic humanist -- 1. The clash between rhetoric and philosophy and its resolution -- a. Res vs. verbum -- b. In praise of Christian eloquence -- 2. The wider limits of Christian erudition: the De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis (ca. 1492-94) and the explanatory letter to Albert Morderer -- a. The dedication to Johannes de Dalberg -- b. The defense of pagan letters -- 3. Trithemius as a biblical humanist: the Quaestiones in Evangelium Johannis and Libellus de quaestionibus psalterii (1496) -- 4. Trithemius as a patriotic humanist: recovery of the Germanic past (ca. 1490-1505) -- a. Francia orientalis, land of the Trojan migrants -- b. Trithemius and Celtis -- c. Trithemius and Wimpheling -- 1) The dedication of the Catalogus illustrium virorum Germaniae (1491-95) -- 2) The quarrel -- D. The tense equilibrium between piety and learning as reflected in Trithemius, correspondence from 'exile' (1505) -- IV. The transfer of Trithemius' campaign on behalf of monastic erudition to Würzburg (1506-16) -- A. The coming of the "golden age": samples from the first year of Trithemius' epistolary call to learning (1506-07) -- B. The equivocal nature of the human intellect: the Liber octo quaestionum and Oratio ad clerum Bambergensem (1508) -- C. The role of historical recollection -- 1. The sacred function of the memory as upheld in the autobiographical Nepiachus (1507) -- 2. Trithemius as historian in theory and practice -- a. The obstacles of historical writing -- b. The theory of historical writing: the prefaces to the Annales Hirsaugienses (1511, 1514) -- c. The practice of historical writing.

1) History and patriotism: the compendia of Frankish history from its origins (1514) -- 2) History and learned piety: the biographies of Maximus and Rabanus Maurus (1515-16) -- D. The aftermath of the Trithemius-Wimpheling controversy: the Epistolae obscurorum virorum (1515-17) -- Conclusion: The Trithemian legacy of monastic humanism on the threshold of the Reformation -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects -- Studies in the History of Christian Thought.