Saint Simon de Montfort: The Miracles, Laments, Prayers and Hymns

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2024
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-83765-084-2 (ISBN)

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A miracle book, prayers and hymns inspired by Simon de Montfort provide rare evidence of an unusual aspect of popular religion.

Simon de Montfort led the barons' rebellion against Henry III in 1265, and was killed at the battle of Evesham. The rebellion had attempted to force changes in central and local government on the king, and was to some degree a popular protest movement. Earl Simon was immediately the object of an unofficial miracle cult, which lasted until c.1280. In England no other layman had attracted a miracle cult since Earl Waltheof (d.1076). It centred on Montfort's grave in Evesham abbey, and it had to be practised in secret for at least two years. Earl Simon was never officially canonized. The Evesham miracle book records some two hundred alleged events, and the contemporary laments, prayers, and hymns reflect the bitterness, despair and longing that animated the cult.

The only previous edition of the miracle book appeared in 1840; most of the verses and prayers also appeared in print long ago, but in scattered publications and to no uniform standard. The documents are mostly in Latin, with a few in French. Only some of the items have hitherto been translated into English prose. Collectively, the documents illustrate local and social history, popular religion, and contemporary opinion across a range of social ranks at a time of crisis.

DAVID COX, PhD, FSA, was formerly Editor of the Victoria History of Shropshire and Lecturer in History at Keele University, UK.

List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION
The miracle book
The miracles
The laments, prayers and hymns
Saint Simon
Legacy and rediscovery

CATALOGUE OF THE TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS
The miracles
The laments, prayers and hymns

EDITORIAL PROCEDURE

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
The Evesham abbey miracle book (1-197)
Miracles from the Melrose chronicle (198-201)
A miracle from the Lanercost chronicle (202)
Anno milleno (203)
Chaunter mestoit (204)
Chaunter mestut (205)
Illos saluauit (206)
Vbi fuit mons (207)
Vulneratur karitas (208)
Calendar entries (209-14)
Salue Symon: antiphon, versicle and response (215)
Salue Symon: motet (216)
Rumpe celos (217)
Mater Syon (218)
Nequit stare (219)
O decus militie (Cambridge MS) (220)
O decus militie (Cologne MS) (221)
Miles Christi (222)

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Index of Persons and Places

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Boydell Medieval Texts
Übersetzer	David Cox
Zusatzinfo	3 maps and 1 b/w illus.
Verlagsort	Woodbridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-83765-084-5 / 1837650845
ISBN-13	978-1-83765-084-2 / 9781837650842
Zustand	Neuware