The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516) : : the renaissance of monastic humanism /

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

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Superior document:Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
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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)
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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.

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