Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-323) and index.
Contents:
Appendix III. Other cited manuscripts. Summaries of nine Exempla added to Version B of the Dialogus miraculorum -- 1. Cistercian storytelling in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- 2. Cistercian Exemplum production in the late thirteenth through fifteenth centuries -- 3. Cistercian manuscripts of the Dialogus miraculorum -- 4. Version B of the Dialogus miraculorum -- 5. Version C of the Dialogus miraculorum -- 6. Versions D and E of the Dialogus miraculorum -- 7. Cistercian readers interacting with the Dialogus miraculorum -- 8. The Dialogus miraculorum and other Exempla collections in Cisterican libraries -- Part 2. Outside Cistercian walls -- 9. Regular canons ans readers of the Dialogus miraculorum -- 10. Benedictines, Carthusians, and Mendicant Friars -- Part 3. The way into modernity -- 11. Incunabulum editions -- 12. Jacob Fischer's edition (1591) and the controversy over miracles -- 13. Bertrand Tissier's edition (1662) -- 14. The Dialogus miraculorum and its modern reception: from derision to fascination -- 15 From the twentieth century to the present day: academia and popular cultures -- Appendix I. Cited manuscripts of Caesarius's Dialogus miraculorum -- Appendix II. Summaries of nine Exempla added to Version B of the Dialogus miraculorum -- Appendix III. Other cited manuscripts.
Summary:
"This study follows the transmission and reception of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (1219-1223), a Cistercian collection of miracles and memorable events, from the Middle Ages to the present day. It ranges across different media and within different interpretive communities and includes brief summaries of a number of the exempla"-- Provided by publisher.
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