"On the ecclesiastical hierarchy"
Subtitle: the thirteenth-century Paris textbook edition
By: introduction, translation, and notes by L. Michael Harrington
Contributors: Harrington, L. Michael
Series: Dallas medieval texts and translations -- 12; Dallas medieval texts and translations -- 12.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Paris; Walpole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789042924819
Subjects: Mittellatein; Translations into English; Sources; Gudstjänsten; Ecclesiastical hierarchy (Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite); Latin authors; Historia; Early church; Early Christian literature; Handschrift; History; Worship; Fornkyrkan
Description: The medieval fascination with the mysterious language of Dionysius the Areopagite is nowhere more evident than in the thirteenth-century textbook edition of his treatise on liturgical rites. Dionysius employed unfamiliar Greek to describe people, actions, and texts that would have been perfectly familiar to his readers. The Latin translation used in the thirteenth-century textbook strives to preserve this unfamiliarity, but commentaries are introduced between the lines and paragraphs, disrupting its ability to bewilder and surprise. These commentaries make the Dionysian text less mysterious, while also slightly altering its meaning. In the hands of the commentators, Dionysius becomes less interested in the aesthetic mystery of the liturgy, and more interested in credal orthodoxy. To read text and commentary together is to confront seven hundred years of competing voices speaking on the nature and purpose of the Christian church.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Latin with English translation on facing pages.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Text: Interruption, Corruption, Obscurity; title: Themes: Faith, Beauty, Likeness; title: Notes on the Present Edition; title: Bibliography of Selected Works; title: Abbreviations and Table of Sigla; title: Text; title: Notes; title: Appendix A: Omitted Scholia; title: Appendix B: Relevant Scholia.