A thirteenth-century textbook of mystical theology at the University of Paris
Subtitle: the Mystical theology of Dionysius the Areopagite in Eriugena's Latin translation, with the scholia translated by Anastasius the Librarian, and excerpts from Eriugena's Periphyseon
By: edition, translation, and introduction by L. Michael Harrington.
Contributors: Anastasius, the Librarian, ca. 810-ca. 878.; Harrington, L. Michael.; Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite; Erigena, Johannes Scotus, ca. 810-ca. 877.
Series: Dallas medieval texts and translations -- 4
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Paris; Dudley, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Pseudo-Dionysius, -- the Areopagite.; Mysticism -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Description: "The luminaries of late thirteenth-century Europe took great interest in the mysterious fifth-century author known as Dionysius the Areopagite. They typically read Dionysius not in the original Greek, but in a Latin edition prepared sometime in the middle of the thirteenth century. This edition, which appeared first in Paris and later circulated all over Western Europe, was no mere translation. In addition to the famous translation made by Eriugena in the ninth century, it contained translations of scholia on the Dionysian texts made by Anastasius the Librarian, alternative readings provided by Anastasius and other Latin readers, as well as excerpts from Eriugena's own theological masterwork, the Periphyseon. University scholars such as Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas thus learned Dionysian mystical theology not only from his text, but from the seven-hundred-year interpretive tradition that literally surrounded it on the page."-- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [39]-42) and indexes.

English and Latin.