Apocalyptic Asceticism : Completing the edition of Alexander Minorita's Expositio in Apocalypsim as it is found in Cambridge, University Library, MM.5.31

HAYTON, Magda a Robert Laurence John SHAW. Apocalyptic Asceticism : Completing the edition of Alexander Minorita's Expositio in Apocalypsim as it is found in Cambridge, University Library, MM.5.31. Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion. USA: Cambridge University Press, 2023, roč. 78, č. 1, s. 263-372. ISSN 0362-1529. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tdo.2023.2.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Apocalyptic Asceticism : Completing the edition of Alexander Minorita's Expositio in Apocalypsim as it is found in Cambridge, University Library, MM.5.31
• Autoři: HAYTON, Magda (124 Kanada) a Robert Laurence John SHAW (826 Velká Británie a Severní Irsko, garant, domácí).
• Vydání: Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion, USA, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 0362-1529.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Obor: 60304 Religious studies
• Stát vydavatele: Velká Británie a Severní Irsko
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: article in the journal archive
• Impakt faktor: Impact factor: 0.400 v roce 2022
• Kód RIV: RIV/00216224:14210/23:00132527
• Organizační jednotka: Filozofická fakulta
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tdo.2023.2
• UT WoS: 001125275000005
• Klíčová slova česky: apokalypsa; apokalyptika; Alexandr Minorita; Albert ze Stade; mendikanti; mnišství; askeze; duchovní boj
• Klíčová slova anglicky: apocalypse; apocalypticism; Alexander Minorita; Albert of Stade; mendicants; monasticism; asceticism; spiritual warfare
• Štítky: rivok
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Anotace

The Expositio in Apocalypsim by Alexander Minorita (also known as Alexander of Bremen, d. 1271) is the earliest complete mendicant Apocalypse commentary. It has been noted for its highly chronological interpretation of the path toward the end times and its witness to the early spread of Joachimite texts into central Europe. Our knowledge of the transmission and, crucially, the use of this text has thus far not taken into account thirty-five folios of instruction on spiritual warfare found in one of the Expositio's eight manuscript witnesses: Cambridge, University Library, Mm.5.31 (c. 1270). The edition presented here of this unique addition, which was excluded from the modern critical edition of the Expositio, makes the complete Cambridge version of the Expositio available for the first time. While there has been some debate over the editorship of this version of the commentary — the Benedictine-turned-Franciscan Albert of Stade (d. c. 1260) and Alexander himself have both been suggested — we argue that a further possibility must be considered. Its author may have been a highly educated Benedictine writer, who adapted the commentary with his coreligionists (at least partly) in mind. His goal was not only to extol the importance within the apocalyptic timeline of Benedictine history, but also to promote ascetic values among his readers. Overall, the Cambridge Expositio provides further evidence of the intellectual conversations and cross-pollination of both practices of learning and structures of thought between mendicant, university, and cenobitic cultures in this period. Within this context, apocalyptic thought could find unexpected uses, including galvanizing monks in day-to-day religious practice and progress.