Opus Arduum Valde

A Wycliffite Commentary on the Book of Revelation
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-36293-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 227/10, 692 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1118 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions / Texts and Sources

The Opus arduum valde is a Latin commentary on the Book of Revelation, written in England by an unknown scholarly author in the years 1389–1390. The book originated from the early Wycliffite movement and reflects its experience of persecution in apocalyptic terms. In England it soon fell into oblivion, but was adopted by radical exponents of the fifteenth-century Bohemian Hussites. In the sixteenth century Luther obtained a copy of the Opus arduum valde which he had printed in Wittenberg with his own preface in 1528. This remarkable document of religious dissent in late medieval Europe, highly regarded in Lollard and Hussite studies, is now for the first time made available in a critical edition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cegna, Romolo

Galle, Christoph

Schäufele, Wolf-Friedrich

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Opus arduum valde: Origin—Character—Tradition—Edition

Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele

1 Opus arduum valde: The Title

2 The Author

3 The Current Situation

4 Date and Place of Writing

5 Sources

6 The Prologues

7 Content and Main Aspects

8 The Theological Profile of the OAV

9 An Attempt to Identify the Author

10 The OAV in Bohemia

11 The Manuscripts

12 Reconstruction of the History of Transmission and Formation of a Stemma Codicum

Excursus: The Transmission of OAV 7

13 The Edition by Martin Luther

14 Editorial Principles

Opus arduum valde

Prologues

Apocalypsis I

Apocalypsis II

Apocalypsis III

Apocalypsis IV

Apocalypsis V

Apocalypsis VI

Apocalypsis VII

Apocalypsis VIII

Apocalypsis IX

Apocalypsis X

Apocalypsis XI

Apocalypsis XII

Apocalypsis XIII

Apocalypsis XIV

Apocalypsis XV

Apocalypsis XVI

Apocalypsis XVII

Apokalypsis XVIII

Apocalypsis XIX

Apocalypsis XX

Apocalypsis XXI

Apocalypsis XXII

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Romolo Cegna (1925–2018) was Director of the Italian Cultural Institute and Cultural Attaché at the Embassy of Italy in Poland and held professorships in medieval religious history and Hussitism at the University of Warsaw and at the State University of Milan.

Christoph Galle, Dr. phil. (2012), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, is Postdoc in Medieval History. His publications deal with aspects of the political, social and cultural history of the Middle Ages as well as medieval Latin philology and palaeography.

Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele, Dr. theol. (1997), Philipps-Universität Marburg, is Professor of Church History and author of several monographs and articles on medieval, Reformation and early modern Christianity, including Kirchengeschichte II: Vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (Ev. Verlagsanstalt, 2021).