Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 2

Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 2
Author: Richard A. Jackson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512821594

The ordines coronationis are essentially the scripts for the coronation of Frankish and French sovereigns. Combining detailed religious, ceremonial, and political material, they are an extraordinarily important source for the study of individual rulers or dynasties, as well as for the study of kingship, queenship, and the evolution of political institutions. Complete in two volumes, Richard A. Jackson's is the first full edition of these texts, including all the ordines from the early thirteenth century through the end of the fifteenth century, a period during which the texts shift from Latin to the vernacular, and the institutions of kingship become distinctively French.

The Encheiridion of Epictetus and its Three Christian Adaptations

The Encheiridion of Epictetus and its Three Christian Adaptations
Author: Gerard Boter
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004321071

Epictetus' Encheiridion, which was composed by his pupil Arrian with the purpose of giving a comprehensive account of Epictetus' thought, has been transmitted in many sources. Besides the rich direct tradition there are three Christian adaptations, a voluminous commentary by the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius, as well as the indirect tradition. The most recent critical edition is the editio maior by Johannes Schweighäuser (1798), which does not meet the requirements of modern philology. In the first part of this book there is a full account of the transmission of Epictetus' Encheiridion and the three Christian adaptations, based on all extant manuscripts. The second part of the book contains critical editions of the four texts; for the Christian Encheiridion of Vaticanus graecus 2231 this is the editio princeps.