LATIN FATHERS OF THE CHURCH

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LATIN FATHERS OF THE CHURCH

• LATN 304Spring 2008
• Daniel J. Nodes

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Researching Latin Texts of the Church Fathers

• Print and Internet Sources

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Printed Editions of the Fathers

• Standard collections of patristic and medieval
  texts

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Patrologiae Cursus Completus Series Latina.

• Paris, 1844 ff. The Patrologia (Series Latina)
  covers the Latin Fathersfrom Tertullian in A.D.
  200 through Pope Innocent III (d. 1216).
• There is a medieval supplementum. The individual
  texts are usually reprints of earlier editions.
• AMU Library BR60 .M4
• Use indices to find texts citing Lk. 1025-37.

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Corpus Christianorum Series Latina.

• Turnhout, Belgium Brepols.
• Designed to supplant Migne's Patrologia Latina
  with new critical texts or the best of those
  currently extant the series follows the critical
  catalog or prospectus of E. Dekkers, Clavis
  Patrum Latinorum (see below).
• AMU Library BR60 .C49

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Sources Chrétiennes

• Sources Chrétiennes is a bilingual collection of
  patristic texts founded in Lyon in 1943 by the
  Jean Daniélou, Claude Mondésert, and Henri de
  Lubac.
• The collection is edited by the Institut des
  Sources Chrétiennes and published in Paris by Les
  Éditions du Cerf.

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Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

• The Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
  (CSEL) is a series of critical editions of the
  Latin Church Fathers published by a committee of
  the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
• The CSEL is intended to include the
  ecclesiastical authors who wrote in Latin from
  the late 2nd century AD until the death of Bede
  in 735. The texts are edited on the basis of all
  extant manuscripts and according to the
  principles of modern textual criticism and thus
  aim to provide a critical replacement for the
  corresponding volumes of the Patrologia Latina.
• http//www.oeaw.ac.at/kvk/

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New Editions of Medieval Latin

• Toronto Medieval Latin Texts Series Published
  for the Centre for Medieval Studies by the
  Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
• AMU library PA8137 .T5 /PA6229.A9 D4513 1985,
  etc.

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Tools to Identify Authors and Texts

• Lists, Patrologies, Encyclopedias

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Clavis Patrum Latinorum

• Clavis patrum latinorum CPL. E. Dekkers. 2nd
  ed. 1961 3rd ed. Turnhout 1995.
• For Christian Latin authors from Tertullian to
  Bede (d. 735), a valuable key to verifying
  authorship (for example, the actual authors of
  many sermons attributed to St. Augustine are
  identified) and locating editions and manuscript
  studies only material bearing on the
  establishment of the text is covered, not
  critical studies.
• http//faculty.wlc.edu/thompson/fourth-century/ind
  ex.htm?httpfaculty.wlc.edu/thompson/fourth-cent
  ury/Bibliographic/clavis.htm
• AMU Library Reference Z7791.D45 1995

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The New 'Clavis Patrum Latinorum'

• A list of the differences between the 1961 and
  1995 editions of the Clavis Patrum Latinorum may
  be found in J. VERHEYDEN, The New 'Clavis Patrum
  Latinorum', in Ephemerides Theologicae
  Louvanienses 73 (1997) pp. 121-143.  This
  classifies the new texts by literary genre.  
• Verheyden does not include Latin translations of
  Greek texts, a much neglected field in which
  there has likewise been progress. 

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Manuals of Patrology

• Patrology / by Johannes Quasten.by Quasten,
  Johannes, v. 1. The beginnings of patristic
  literature -- v. 2. The ante-Nicene literature
  after Irenaeus -- v. 3. The golden age of Greek
  patristic literature from the Council of Nicaea
  to the Council of Chalcedon -- v. 4. The golden
  age of Latin patristic literature from the
  Council of Nicea to the Council of Chalcedon. 
• AMU Library AMU Library BR67 .Q3 1983

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Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. Ed. Everett
Ferguson et al. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York 1997.

• To the seventh century. Contains 1,245 entries by
  167 scholars. Whereas the first edition (1990)
  helpfully included the volume numbers of text
  editions in series such as PL and CC.

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Identifying Medievals

• Dictionary of the Middle Ages / Joseph R.
  Strayer, editor in chief. New York Scribner,
  c1982-c1989.
• AMU library Reference D114 .D5 1982

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Digital Libraries of the Fathers

• Available through AMU Library Electronic Resources

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Library Textbases

• http//www.insideavemaria.org/Library/AMU-electron
  icResources.asp

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The Page will take you to these searchable
textbases

• Library of Latin Texts http//www.brepolis.net
  Contains a wide range of classical, patristic,
  and medieval Latin texts, along with selected
  modern texts.
• The Patrologia Latina Database http//pld.chadwyc
  k.com/ An electronic version of the first
  edition of Jacques-Paul Mignes Patrologia
  Latina, containing the works of the Church
  Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of
  Pope Innocent III in 1216.

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Library of Medieval Texts

• http//labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cfm?Action
  ViewCategoryTheology
• http//www.thelatinlibrary.com/medieval.html

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Researching Secondary Literature

• Databases, Bibliographies

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Classics

• L'Année philologique http//www.annee-philologiqu
  e.com/ - Extensive bibliography of over 600,000
  records of scholarly work in Classical Studies,
  published by the Société Internationale de
  Bibliographie Classique.

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Medieval

• International Medieval Bibliography
• AMU Not Subscribed

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Renaissance

• Iter Bibliography http//www.itergateway.org/da
  tabases.cfm Contains citations for books,
  articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs,
  abstracts, discographies, dissertations, and
  essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and
  Renaissance (400-1700).

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Theology

• ATLA--The ATLA Religion Database
  http//firstsearch.oclc.org/ Index to over a
  million journal articles, book reviews and essays
  in the subject of religion and theology. Also
  includes the full text of over 70 journal titles
  dating back to 1924. For access, please obtain
  the password at the reference desk.

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Individual Books of Interest

• patristics

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Excerpts from Patristic Texts

• Ancient Christian commentary on Scripture. New
  Testament 3 Luke / edited by Arthur A. Just,
  Jr.
• Downers Grove, Ill. InterVarsity Press, c2003.
  
• AMU Library BS2595.53 .L85 2003

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Journals and Journal Collections
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Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance

• Journal of Early Christian Studies
• Traditio
• Speculum
• Renaissance Quarterly
• American Benedictine Review
• Augustiniana

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Medieval Latin

• Wenzel, Siegfried. Latin Sermon Collections from
  Later Medieval England Cambridge Studies 2005
  p. 392.

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Contemporary Uses

• Britten, Benjamin Cantata Misericordiae
  reviewed in Tempo, 1963 (JStor) found by Google
  Scholar. Good Samaritan gt Latin lt hospital.

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Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols. New York
198289.

• The largest and most up-to-date encyclopedic
  reference work in English, but of uneven quality.
  Vol. 13 contains the analytical Index note the
  7-page accessus outlining the conventions used
  for indexing.Garland has started a series of
  one-volume encyclopedias of the Middle Ages,
  each devoted to a single country. Medieval
  England, Medieval France, and Medieval
  Scandinavia are out Medieval Italy is supposedly
  in the pipeline.

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Format for Reporting on Research--

• Use this form as the first (cover) page of your
  commentary
• 1. Title of Work
• 2. Clavis number or other standard
  identification CPL
• 3. Author Name (Anon. or Spur. if author unknown
  or doubted), Dates, and Brief Bio.
• 4. Date of Work
• 5. Genre (Homily, Commentary, Epistula, etc.)
• 6. Full Citation of edition used, section of
  work, page numbers. Use Standard form.
• 7. Brief description of the work and its use of
  the Parable
• 8. Your Research Source Found via . . . .