Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations

This volume succeeds admirably as an introduction to the works of Peter of Cornwall, prior of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, London (c. 1140-1221), with a particular focus on his monumental Liber Reuelationum, preserved uniquely in London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51. The authors blend the old with the new in a series of revised articles and a large selection of editions, translations and discussions of unpublished texts, some unique to the Lambeth manuscript. The heart of this study is the publication of the Calendar, which documents the contents of the entire collection of the Liber Reuelationum. It offers an indispensable guide to the source texts available to Peter and provides access to hundreds of often macabre but edifying tales that remain unedited. Its value as a finding tool is enhanced by three indices that enable the reader to search the Calendar by author, work, and name. In the course of illuminating the various contexts of Peter's writings, the authors control an impressive span of interdisciplinary scholarship, which ranges over Irish and English monastic records, biblical scholarship, social history, vision literature, and the Cistercian Order in England and on the Continent.

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Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations

This volume succeeds admirably as an introduction to the works of Peter of Cornwall, prior of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, London (c. 1140-1221), with a particular focus on his monumental Liber Reuelationum, preserved uniquely in London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51. The authors blend the old with the new in a series of revised articles and a large selection of editions, translations and discussions of unpublished texts, some unique to the Lambeth manuscript. The heart of this study is the publication of the Calendar, which documents the contents of the entire collection of the Liber Reuelationum. It offers an indispensable guide to the source texts available to Peter and provides access to hundreds of often macabre but edifying tales that remain unedited. Its value as a finding tool is enhanced by three indices that enable the reader to search the Calendar by author, work, and name. In the course of illuminating the various contexts of Peter's writings, the authors control an impressive span of interdisciplinary scholarship, which ranges over Irish and English monastic records, biblical scholarship, social history, vision literature, and the Cistercian Order in England and on the Continent.

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This volume succeeds admirably as an introduction to the works of Peter of Cornwall, prior of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, London (c. 1140-1221), with a particular focus on his monumental Liber Reuelationum, preserved uniquely in London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51. The authors blend the old with the new in a series of revised articles and a large selection of editions, translations and discussions of unpublished texts, some unique to the Lambeth manuscript. The heart of this study is the publication of the Calendar, which documents the contents of the entire collection of the Liber Reuelationum. It offers an indispensable guide to the source texts available to Peter and provides access to hundreds of often macabre but edifying tales that remain unedited. Its value as a finding tool is enhanced by three indices that enable the reader to search the Calendar by author, work, and name. In the course of illuminating the various contexts of Peter's writings, the authors control an impressive span of interdisciplinary scholarship, which ranges over Irish and English monastic records, biblical scholarship, social history, vision literature, and the Cistercian Order in England and on the Continent.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780888441843
Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publication date: 07/01/2013
Series: Studies and Texts Series , #184
Pages: 632
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Robert Easting retired in 2010 from a Personal Chair in English Language and Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he had taught since 1973. His publications on vision literature include two editions for the Early English Text Society: St Patrick's Purgatory (1991) and The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham (2002). He has been a Minor Open Scholar and Senior Scholar, Wadham College, Oxford; Visiting Lecturer in English and American Literature, Keynes College, University of Kent; Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford; and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Richard Sharpe is professor of diplomatic in the University of Oxford and a fellow of Wadham College. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in Classics and Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic. An assistant editor of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources for nine years, he is general editor of the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues and has published on medieval books and libraries before 1540 and on the Latin writers of Great Britain and Ireland.

Table of Contents

Plates 344

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xi

Notes on the Presentation of the Latin Texts xii

Abbreviations and Short Titles xiv

1 The Life and Writings of Peter of Cornwall 1

2 Liber Reuelationum: Introduction and Peter's Prologue 35

Text and Translation 74

3 Peter of Cornwall's Account of St Patrick's Purgatory 116

Text and Translation 130

4 The Visions of Ailsi 142

Text and Translation 186

5 Visions at the Cistercian Abbey of Ham, Essex 216

Text and Translation 226

6 Visions at Lessness, Kent 254

Text and Translation 26o

7 Other Tales Told by Peter of Cornwall 268

Text and Translation 28o

8 The Manuscript of Liber Reuelationum 342

Calendar of Liber Reuelationum, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51 355

Book One 357

Book Two 395

Bibliography 551

Index of Chapters 573

Index of Authors and Works 582

Index of Saints 587

Index of Chapters by BEL Number 591

General Index 597

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