The traditional view of monastic orders in late-medieval scholastic culture has been relatively muted. Beyond the Franciscan and Dominican orders, and to a far lesser extent, the Augustinians and Cistercians, the older monastic orders (and especially the Benedictines) played a smaller role in the university during the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries. Yet if the library collection of Saint-Bertin is examined more carefully, one finds that many of the books were added by alumni of the University of Paris and Louvain, and in one instance, Cologne, and that as a whole, the monastery’s collection reflected the changing currents within late medieval intellectual society. Science in the Monastery proposes to analyze Benedictine science using Saint-Bertin as a vehicle.
Steven J. Livesey is Brian E. and Sandra O’Brien Presidential Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. His research interests focus on medieval science, history of early scientific methodologies, science in medieval universities, and manuscript studies.
Table des matières :
Introduction
Three celebrated manuscripts
Saint-Bertin and Eleventh-Century Christian Humanism
Saint-Bertin at the University
Benedictine Science at Saint-Bertin
Plates
Catalogue
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque Municipale des Annonciades
Bibliothèque d’Agglomération du pays de Saint-Omer
Appendices
Saint-Bertin Manuscripts with Fifteenth-Century Secundo Folio References
Concordance of Eighteenth-Century Inventory Numbers and Modern Shelflist Numbers
Select Bibliography
Indexes
Index of Authors, Titles and Subjects
Initia
Index of Named Scribes and Artists
Index of Previous Owners, Donors and Users
Index of Watermarks
Manuscripts cited
Informations pratiques :
Steven J. Livesey, Science in the Monastery. Texts, Manuscripts and Learning at Saint-Bertin, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Bibliologia, 55). approx. 352 p., 15 colour ill., 6 b/w tables, 216 x 280 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-58563-5. Prix : 85 euros.
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