Guibert of Nogent's

Immediately following Augustine's "De haeresibus" in the MS Durham Cathedral Library B. III. 7 (c. 1300) occurs Guibert of Nogent's description of the beliefs and practices of a sect in the region of Soissons. The fragment, edites here, enables us to improve our text of this part of the "Monodiae"....

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Author:C.J. Mews
Published: S.n., s.l., 1987
Pages:113-127
Periodical:Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes
Number:33
Format:Article
Topic:- Works > Manuscripts. Ancient anthologies. > Manuscripta > Ourscamp
- Works > Doctrinal works > De haeresibus
- Influence and Survival > The Middle Ages (430-1453) > Influence on the various authors and writings > [Guibert de Nogent]
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:Immediately following Augustine's "De haeresibus" in the MS Durham Cathedral Library B. III. 7 (c. 1300) occurs Guibert of Nogent's description of the beliefs and practices of a sect in the region of Soissons. The fragment, edites here, enables us to improve our text of this part of the "Monodiae". Guibert probably added this passage to this narrative after he had learnt of rumours told by Paul of St-Père of Chartres about heretics burnt at Orleans c. 1022. Those of Soissons were not Manichaeans, as Guibert thought, but followers of a local preacher, Clement of Bucy, who established religious communities for both sexes according to a common pattern in the period. In an appendix, a possible link between the Durham MS and Ourscamp is discussed.

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