Vitae, miracula, translatio, et alia hagiographica Sancti Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis
By: edidit Renée Nip
Contributors: Lisiard, Bishop of Soissons, -1126; Hariulfus, Aldenburgensis, approximately 1060-1143
Series: Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis -- 285
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: lat; eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9782503053011
Subjects: Christian saints; Early works to 1800; Helgonbiografier
Description: The hagiographers Lisiard and Hariulf pictured St Arnulf, Bishop of Soissons and supposed founder of the Abbey of Oudenburg in Flanders (d. 1087), as a peacemaker. During his life, the holy man fell victim to the struggle for power between secular and ecclesiastical princes. Also Lisiard and Hariulf witnessed a great deal of violence as the result of the Investiture Controversy and communal revolts. Shortly after the St Arnulf's death, Lisiard started to compose the saint's Life, which Hariulf adapted in the first decades of the twelfth century. Both worked together to achieve his canonization, which was realized in 1121. This volume makes available some important narrative sources of the history of Flanders and Northern France in the eleventh and twelfth century century. In particular, these present an interesting insight in ideas on power and violence in theory and practice. Besides, the texts in a modern edition provide the means to enlarge our understanding of the hagiographic methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Vitae and other texts in Latin; introduction in English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Vita Sancti Arnulphi Suessionensis episcopi / auctore Lisiardo; title: Vita, miracula, translatio Sancti Arnulphi Suessionensis episcopi / vita (libri I-II) auctore Hariulfo Aldenborgensi abbate ; miracula et translatio (liber III) auctoribus Lisiardo et Hariulfo; title: Sermo de vita Sancti Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis; title: Epistolae commendaticiae Hariulfi Aldenborgensis abbatis; title: Genalogia Sancti Arnulphi episcopi Suessionensis; title: Miracula post transitum Beati Arnulphi facta; title: Hymnus Pange lingua; title: Carmen et orationes.