Stephani de Borbone Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus. Prologus. Prima pars: De dono timoris.(Book Review)

Publication: Medium Aevum

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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature

ed. and with an introduction by Jacques Berlioz and Jean-Luc Eichenlaub, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 124; Exempla Medii Aevi I (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002). xci + 638 pp. ISBN 2-503-04241-4. Eur. 295.00.

This edition of the prologue and first book of Stephen of Bourbon's celebrated exempla collection, of which six more volumes are to follow, demands attention not just for the reason that it makes available an extremely significant, but hitherto unpublished thirteenth-century text, but also because of the innovatory notes and appendices, which are designed to facilitate the study...

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