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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451987703321

Titolo

Exemplary lives [[electronic resource] ] : selected sermons on the saints, from Rheinau / / edited and translated, with an introduction, by James C. Wilkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, WI, : Marquette University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-87462-393-6

1-4356-1060-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Series Theology and piety ; ; vol. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

WilkinsonJames C <1954-> (James Chris)

Disciplina

282.092/2

B

Soggetti

Christian saints

Sermons, German

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

title page; copyright page; table of contents; Preface; Foreword; dedication; Introduction; Texts; Saint Andrew; Saint Nicholas; Saint Thomas; Saint Stephen; Candlemas; Saint Benedict; The Feast of the Annunciation; Saint Mark; Saints Peter & Paul; Saint Mary Magdalene; The Feast of the Assumption; The Feast of All Saints; The Feast of All Souls; Saint Catherine; Selected Blbliography & Indices; Selected Bibliography; Index; Scripture Index

Sommario/riassunto

Located on an island in the Rhine River in Switzerland, near Schaffhausen, Rheinau was the site of a Benedictine abbey with the original patrons St. Mary and St. Peter, and, at a later date, St. Catherine. Rheinau Abbey was founded around 780 AD, with monastic activities of varying degrees of intensity continuing there until 1862. The abbey's scriptorium flourished in the twelfth century. In a fifteenth-century Swiss-German manuscript there is a collection of sermons associated with Rheinau Abbey entitled Die Rheinauer Predigtsammlung. As it is stated in 50 of the Dogmatic Constitution on the