Latin Fathers

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LATIN FATHERS OF THECHURCH

LATN 304Spring 2008

Daniel J. Nodes


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Researching Latin Texts ofthe Church Fathers

Print and Internet Sources


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Printed Editions of the Fathers

Standard collections of patristic andmedieval texts


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Patrologiae Cursus CompletusSeries Latina.

Paris, 1844 ff. The Patrologia (Series Latina)covers the Latin Fathersfrom Tertullian in A.D. 200 through PopeInnocent III (d. 1216).

There is a medieval supplementum. Theindividual texts are usually reprints of earliereditions.

AMU Library BR60 .M4 Use indices to find texts citing Lk. 10:25-37.


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Sources Chrtiennes

Sources Chrtiennes is a bilingualcollection of patristic texts founded in

Lyon in 1943 by the Jean Danilou,Claude Mondsert, and Henri de Lubac.

The collection is edited by the Institutdes Sources Chrtiennes and publishedin Paris by Les ditions du Cerf.


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orpus cr p orum cc es as corumLatinorum

The Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum(CSEL) is a series of critical editions of the LatinChurch Fathers published by a committee of theAustrian Academy of Sciences.

The CSEL is intended to include the ecclesiasticalauthors who wrote in Latin from the late 2nd centuryAD until the death of Bede in 735. The texts are editedon the basis of all extant manuscripts and according tothe principles of modern textual criticism and thus aimto provide a critical replacement for the correspondingvolumes of the Patrologia Latina.

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kvk/


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New Editions of Medieval Latin

Toronto Medieval Latin Texts Series :Published for the Centre for MedievalStudies by the Pontifical Institute ofMediaeval Studies

AMU library: PA8137 .T5 /PA6229.A9D4513 1985, etc.


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Tools to Identify Authors andTexts

Lists, Patrologies, Encyclopedias


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Clavis Patrum Latinorum

Clavis patrum latinorum [CPL]. E. Dekkers. 2nd ed. 1961; 3rded. Turnhout 1995.

For Christian Latin authors from Tertullian to Bede (d. 735), avaluable key to verifying authorship (for example, the actual

authors of many sermons attributed to St. Augustine areidentified) and locating editions and manuscript studies; onlymaterial bearing on the establishment of the text is covered, notcritical studies.

http://faculty.wlc.edu/thompson/fourth-century/index.htm?http&&&faculty.wlc.edu/thompson/fourth-

century/Bibliographic/clavis.htm AMU Library: Reference Z7791.D45 1995


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The New 'Clavis Patrum Latinorum'

A list of the differences between the 1961 and1995 editions of the Clavis Patrum Latinorummay be found in J. VERHEYDEN, The New

'Clavis Patrum Latinorum', in Ephe

merid

esTheologicae Louvanienses 73 (1997) pp. 121-

143. This classifies the new texts by literarygenre.

Verheyden does not include Latin translationsof Greek texts, a much neglected field in whichthere has likewise been progress.


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Manuals of Patrology

Patrology / by Johannes Quasten.by Quasten,Johannes, v. 1. The beginnings of patristicliterature -- v. 2. The ante-Nicene literature

after Irenaeus -- v. 3. The golden age of Greekpatristic literature from the Council of Nicaeato the Council of Chalcedon -- v. 4. The goldenage of Latin patristic literature from the Council

of Nicea to the Council of Chalcedon. AMU Library: AMU Library: BR67 .Q3 1983


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Encyclopedia ofEarly Christianity. Ed. Everett Ferguson et al.

2nd ed. 2 vols. New York 1997.

To the seventh century. Contains 1,245entries by 167 scholars. Whereas thefirst edition (1990) helpfully included thevolume numbers of text editions in seriessuch as PL and CC.


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Identifying Medievals

Dictionary of the Middle Ages / JosephR. Strayer, editor in chief. New York :Scribner, c1982-c1989.

AMU library: Reference D114 .D5 1982


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Digital Libraries of the Fathers

Available through AMU LibraryElectronic Resources


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Library Textbases

http://www.insideavemaria.org/Library/AMU-electronicResources.asp


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The Page will take you to thesesearchable textbases

Library of Latin Texts[http://www.brepolis.net] Contains a widerange of classical, patristic, and medieval Latin

texts, along with selected modern texts. The Patrologia Latina Database

[http://pld.chadwyck.com/] An electronicversion of the first edition of Jacques-PaulMignes Patrologia Latina, containing theworks of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in1216.


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Library of Medieval Texts

http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cfm?Action=View&Category=Theology

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/medieval.html


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Researching SecondaryLiterature

Databases, Bibliographies


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Classics

L'Anne philologique

[http://www.annee-philologique.com/] -Extensive bibliography of over 600,000records of scholarly work in ClassicalStudies, published by the SocitInternationale de Bibliographie

Classique.


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Medieval

International Medieval Bibliography

AMU Not Subscribed


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Renaissance

Iter Bibliography [[http://www.itergateway.org/databases.cfm] Contains citations for books,articles, reviews, bibliographies,catalogs, abstracts, discographies,dissertations, and essays pertaining to

the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).


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Theology

ATLA--The ATLA Religion Database:[http://firstsearch.oclc.org/] Index toover a million journal articles, bookreviews and essays in the subject ofreligion and theology. Also includes thefull text of over 70 journal titles dating

back to 1924. For access, please obtainthe password at the reference desk.


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Individual Books of Interest

patristics


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Excerpts from Patristic Texts

Ancient Christian commentary on

Scripture. NewTestament; 3 Luke /edited by Arthur A. Just, Jr.

Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press,c2003.

AMU Library: BS2595.53 .L85 2003


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Journals and JournalCollections


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Patristic, Medieval, andRenaissance

Journal of Early Christian Studies

Traditio

Speculum Renaissance Quarterly

American Benedictine Review

Augustiniana


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Medieval Latin

Wenzel, Siegfried. Latin SermonCollections from Later Medieval England

Cambridge Studies 2005 p. 392.


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Contemporary Uses

Britten, Benjamin Cantata Misericordiae:[reviewed in Tempo, 1963 (JStor) foundby Google Scholar. Good Samaritan >Latin < hospital.]


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Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols. New York 198289.

The largest and most up-to-date encyclopedicreference work in English, but of unevenquality. Vol. 13 contains the analytical Index;note the 7-page accessus outlining the

conventions used for indexing.Garland has started a series of one-volumeencyclopedias of the Middle Ages, eachdevoted to a single country. Medieval England,Medieval France, and Medieval Scandinaviaare out; Medieval Italyis supposedly in thepipeline.


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Format for Reporting on Research--

Use this form as the first (cover) page of your commentary 1. Title of Work 2. Clavis number or other standard identification: CPL *** 3. Author Name (Anon. or Spur. if author unknown or doubted),

Dates, and Brief Bio. 4. Date of Work 5. Genre (Homily, Commentary, Epistula, etc.) 6. Full Citation of edition used, section of work, page numbers.

Use Standard form. 7. Brief description of the work and its use of the Parable 8. Your Research Source: Found via: . . . .

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