Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia: Including a Fourteenth-Century Latin Version (Bamberg, Misc. Hist. 146, E. VII, 19): and a Fifteenth-Century German Version (Berlin, Germ. Oct. 484)

Walter W. Seton

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511706059

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Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia

Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia

Including a Fourteenth-Century Latin Version (Bamberg, Misc. Hist. 146, E. VII, 19): and a Fifteenth-Century German Version (Berlin, Germ. Oct. 484)

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Walter W. Seton

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: March 2012
Print publication year:: 2010
First published in:: 1915
Online ISBN:: 9780511706059
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511706059

Subjects:: British History 1066-1450, History, Regional History Before 1500, Religion, Church History
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History

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Walter Seton's 1915 book focuses on one of the key, understudied figures of the early Franciscan movement. Abbess of the Convent of Prague, Blessed Agnes was central to the establishment of the Order of Saint Clare. She presented persuasive arguments to convince the Holy See to permit female Franciscans to live according to their Rule and practise voluntary poverty. Seton's edition, drawn from manuscripts in German libraries, includes the oldest extant Latin version of Agnes' Life together with a fifteenth-century German version and German copies of four letters she received from Saint Clare. Praised in 1916 for its 'admirable thoroughness', this edition sheds new light on Blessed Agnes, whose importance was long overshadowed by her more prominent contemporaries, Saint Clare and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, her cousin. This reissue makes this valuable primary material accessible again to scholars working on Franciscan history and medieval women's spirituality.

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Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia

Including a Fourteenth-Century Latin Version (Bamberg, Misc. Hist. 146, E. VII, 19): and a Fifteenth-Century German Version (Berlin, Germ. Oct. 484)

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Frontmatter
pp i-v

Contents
pp vi-vii

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
pp viii-viii

INTRODUCTION
pp 1-58

TEXTS
pp 59-60

THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY LATIN VERSION OF THE LEGEND: Incipit prologus in uitam inclite uirginis sororis Agnetis
pp 61-62

THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY GERMAN VERSION OF THE LEGEND: Hie vahet an daz leben vnd lesen der kunigen Angnes
pp 63-150

THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY GERMAN VERSION OF SAINT CLARE'S LETTERS TO BLESSED AGNES AND OF THE BENEDICTION OF SAINT CLARE: Dise brief sant die selig Sand Clar
pp 151-166

APPENDIX I - Bibliography
pp 167-168

APPENDIX II - Notes
pp 169-174

APPENDIX III - Letter of Wenceslas IV. to Pope Gregory IX
pp 175-175

APPENDIX IV - Supplementary Note
pp 176-176

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Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia

Including a Fourteenth-Century Latin Version (Bamberg, Misc. Hist. 146, E. VII, 19): and a Fifteenth-Century German Version (Berlin, Germ. Oct. 484)

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