Overview

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.

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Author:   Romolo Cegna ,  Christoph Galle ,  Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   227/10
Weight:   1.292kg
ISBN:  

9789004362932

ISBN 10:   9004362932
Pages:   692
Publication Date:   03 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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).

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