Title: Gerardi Cameracensis Acta Synodi Atrebatensis ; Vita Autberti ; Vita tertia Gaugerici ; Varia scripta ex officina Gerardi exstantia /
Authors: Gerardus, approximately 980-1051,; Vanderputten, Steven,; Reilly, Diane J.; Gerardus, approximately 980-1051.; Fulbertus, active 11th century.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Aubert,; Géry,; Catholic Church. History Sources.; Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern.; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern); Cambrai (France) Church history Sources.
Abstract: "The miscellaneous corpus of texts commissioned by Bishop Gerard I of Cambrai (1012-1051) constitutes one of the primary means of accessing substantial parts of the Low Countries' political, cultural, and religious history in the early eleventh century. Encompassing historiography, hagiography, dogmatic treatises, correspondence, and other texts, it also constitutes a defense of episcopal prerogatives, and reflects Gerard's concerns and ambitions as bishop of Cambrai, an imperial bishopric wedged between Western Frankish territories, and lord of the Cambrésis. The programmatic nature of this discourse is revealed particularly in a group of seemingly unrelated narratives and documents, presented here in versions thought to best approximate those edited during Gerard's lifetime. In the 'Acts of the Synod of Arras', a lengthy treatise presented as the report of the inquisition of heretics in 1025, Gerard provided, via an anonymous author, a detailed insight into his views on Christian dogma, religious practice, and bishops' role in society. Although they belong to a different textual genre, the 'Lives of St Aubert and St Géry', both predecessors of Gerard at Cambrai, reveal the coherence and persistence of Gerard's views on the aforementioned subjects. Twelve miscellaneous documents (letters, treaties, and one Peace decree), each of which touches upon issues addressed in the three previous texts, complete the corpus."--Provided by the publisher.
Contents: Of the "documenta miscellanea": I. Epistola ad sanctae Leodicensis ecclesiae archidiaconos de excommunicatis sepeliendis -- II. Epistola ad Adalberonem siue Ascelinum episcopum Laudunensem de simoniaco coadiutore -- III. Epistola ad Ebulonem siue Eblum archiepiscopum Remensem de eadem causa -- IV. Epistola ad Beroldum episcopum Suessionensem de eadem causa -- V. Notificatio diuersarum cum castellano Waltero et eius sociis conuentionum -- VI. Epistola ad R. episcopum de heresi Gandulfianorum -- VII. Epistola ad Leduinum abbatem et monachos Sancti Vedasti de incentio ecclesiae cathedralis Atrebatensis -- VIII. Epistola ad Fulconem episcopum Ambiensem pro Drogone Teruuanensium episcopo a comite Balduino exulato -- IX. Conuentio contra castellanum Walterum -- X. Epistola ad Gozonem abbatem Florinacensem de iudicio synodali supra neptem suam Hadewidem -- XI. Decretum supra treugam Dei in dioecesi Cameracensi obseruandam -- XII. Sermo contra pacem Dei a Franciae episcopis datam -- XIII. Epistola ad Henricum regem.