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The "Liber de caradinalibus Christi domini nostri operibus" of the Lord Arnold, Abbot of Bonneval: Introduction and critical text with notes.

Date

1991

Authors

Smith, Richard Upsher, Jr.

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Publisher

Dalhousie University

Abstract

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The aim of this dissertation is twofold. The first aim is to provide a critical text of the Liber de cardinalibus Christi domini nostri operibus of Arnold, Abbot of Bonneval (ca. 1129-ca. 1159). The second is to provide a context for this text. This second aim is achieved by means of an examination of the textual history of this work, an inquiry into Arnold's life and oeuvre, and an explication of the theology of this work based upon the results of the preceding studies. The result of the dissertation is, I believe, a demonstration that Arnold, particularly in this work, sought to show how the Augustinianism of the Benedictine tradition completed the Augustinianism of the physicists of the schools. Thus, the De cardinalibus Christi operibus provides a propaedeutic to the monastic life for the scholar.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1991.

Keywords

Literature, Medieval., Biography.

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