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Hilduin (c. 785-c. 860), abbot of Saint-Denis in Paris and archchaplain to Louis the Pious, was one of the leading scholars and administrators of the Carolingian empire. He was the first to translate the mystical Greek writings of the pseudo-Dionysius into Latin; he then identified this Dionysius with the first bishop of Paris of that name, and assigned his episcopacy and martyrdom to 96 A.D. Hilduin composed a life of St Dionysius in prose and verse: the prose work has not been edited since 1580, and the verse work - a major new Carolingian Latin poem - has never before been printed. Both texts are accompanied by facing-page English translation and detailed commentary; eleven appendices contain editions of the various texts on which Hilduin drew in compiling his fictitious account of St Dionysius.

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It is hard to think of any single book that has made such an outstanding contribution to the literary study of early Medieval Latin in recent decades. Many intractable issues have been resolved here, just as numerous avenues for further research have been signposted. Nigel F. Palmer, in Medium Aevum, 88 (2019). l'opus magnum de M. L. nous livre l'edition d'un dossier hagiographique particulierement complexe et d'une grande importance historique.[...] l'enorme travail nous donne un acces aise (la clarte d'exposition est l'une des qualites maitresses de l'A.) aux deux Passiones composees par Hilduin et a toutes les pieces qui permettent d'en comprendre la genese, toutes presentees dans de nouvelles editions critiques et accompagnees d'une traduction. Nul doute que la recherche en sera grandement stimulee. R. Godding, in Analecta Bollandiana, 136 (2018). ''This book is an impressive achievement, and medievalists must thank Lapidge for having accomplished this time-consuming and often underestimated work, which includes of lists of manuscripts, a critical apparatus, and philological and historical explanatory notes.'' Klaus Kroenert, in Speculum , 94/2 (2019).

This is the fourteenth volume in the Medieval Franciscans series and commemorates the contributions made to Franciscan studies by the late Dr Rosalind B. Brooke. It features multidisciplinary contributions from a range of international scholars, with twenty-one essays grouped around five themes. [...] The English Province of the Franciscans is certainly a hefty tome but provides a detailed and significant contribution to the study of the Franciscans in their early years in England and is a worthy addition to the Medieval Franciscans series. Yvonne McDermott in The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 7 (2018), 319-321 l'opus magnum de M. L. nous livre l'edition d'un dossier hagiographique particulierement complexe et d'une grande importance historique.[...] l'enorme travail nous donne un acces aise (la clarte d'exposition est l'une des qualites maitresses de l'A.) aux deux Passiones composees par Hilduin et a toutes les pieces qui permettent d'en comprendre la genese, toutes presentees dans de nouvelles editions critiques et accompagnees d'une traduction. Nul doute que la recherche en sera grandement stimulee. R. Godding in Analect Bollandiana, 136 (2018),

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Michael Lapidge, Ph.D. 1971, Litt.D. 1987, Hon.D.Litt. 2011. Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Cambridge; author or editor of 50 books and 250 articles; Fellow of the British Academy; Corresponding Fellow of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Munich) and Accademia dei Lincei (Rome).

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