Letters, 61-90 No. 61-90 (Fathers of the Church Mediaeval Continuation) - Hardcover

Damian Saint, Peter; Damian, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813207509 ISBN 13: 9780813207506

Verlag: The Catholic University of America Press, 1992

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Peter Damian (1007-1072), an 11th-century monk and man of letters, left a large and significant body of correspondence. This third volume of "The Letters of Peter Damian" is an annotated translation of Letters 61-90. These letters reveal the author's concern with the contemporary need for reforms, centering on clerical, especially episcopal, celibacy and on the "heresy" of simony which involved the purchase of ecclesiastical offices. Because Damian's Latin was a living language that surpasses the ability of classical Latin lexicography to cope with it, all disciplines that make use of medieval thought will welcome this English translation. Owen J. Blum's notes to each letter indicate the vocabulary problems he encountered and how they were resolved. This third volume, like its companions, uses Damian's thought to understand an important and gripping period in the history of church and state.

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• Verlag: The Catholic University of America Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0813207509
• ISBN 13: 9780813207506
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 475