Henry Bitterfeld, Thomas Aquinas and Identifying Sources in Late Medieval Texts. A Case Study of De formatione et reformatione Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum
Henry Bitterfeld, Thomas Aquinas and Identifying Sources in Late Medieval Texts. A Case Study of De formatione et reformatione Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum
Author(s): Anna ZAJCHOWSKA-BOŁTROMIUKSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), 13th to 14th Centuries, Source Material, Italian literature
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Order of Preachers; Middle Ages; Henry Bitterfeld of Brzeg; Church Reform; editing medieval texts;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the ways in which St Thomas Aquinas’s texts were used by Henry Bitterfeld in his late-14th-century treatise De formatione et reformatione Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum. Not only is Aquinas the most often quoted authority in Bitterfeld’s writing but also his texts are the building materials for Bitterfeld. This special place of St Thomas in the treatise by the Silesian Dominican resulted from a practical realisation of the assumptions of the Dominican Observant Reform for the needs of which the analysed treatise was written, calling for the return of the Dominicans to faithful observance of the Order’s regulations. Those ordered the friars to study and propagate St Thomas’s teachings.
Journal: Studia Źródłoznawcze. Commentationes
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 58
- Page Range: 55-64
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English