Latin Fathers of The Church: LATN 304-Spring 2008 Daniel J. Nodes

LATIN FATHERS OF THE
CHURCH
LATN 304—Spring 2008
Daniel J. Nodes
Researching Latin Texts of the
Church Fathers
Print and Internet Sources
Printed Editions of the Fathers
Standard collections of patristic and

medieval texts
Patrologiae Cursus Completus
Series Latina.
 Paris, 1844 ff. The Patrologia (Series Latina)
covers the Latin Fathers
from Tertullian in A.D. 200 through Pope
Innocent III (d. 1216).
 There is a medieval supplementum. The
individual texts are usually reprints of earlier
editions.
 AMU Library BR60 .M4
 Use indices to find texts citing Lk. 10:25-37.
Corpus Christianorum Series
Latina.
 Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.
 Designed to supplant Migne's Patrologia
Latina with new critical texts or the best
of those currently extant; the series
follows the critical catalog or prospectus
of E. Dekkers, Clavis Patrum Latinorum
(see below).
 AMU Library: BR60 .C49
Sources Chrétiennes
 Sources Chrétiennes is a bilingual

collection of patristic texts founded in
Lyon in 1943 by the Jean Daniélou,
Claude Mondésert, and Henri de Lubac.
 The collection is edited by the Institut

des Sources Chrétiennes and published
in Paris by Les Éditions du Cerf.
Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum
Latinorum
 The Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
(CSEL) is a series of critical editions of the Latin
Church Fathers published by a committee of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences.
 The CSEL is intended to include the ecclesiastical

authors who wrote in Latin from the late 2nd century
AD until the death of Bede in 735. The texts are edited
on the basis of all extant manuscripts and according to
the principles of modern textual criticism and thus aim
to provide a critical replacement for the corresponding
volumes of the Patrologia Latina.
 http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kvk/
New Editions of Medieval Latin
 Toronto Medieval Latin Texts Series :

Published for the Centre for Medieval
Studies by the Pontifical Institute of
Mediaeval Studies
 AMU library: PA8137 .T5 /PA6229.A9
D4513 1985, etc.
Tools to Identify Authors and
Texts
Lists, Patrologies, Encyclopedias
Clavis Patrum Latinorum
 Clavis patrum latinorum [CPL]. E. Dekkers. 2nd ed. 1961; 3rd
ed. Turnhout 1995.
 For Christian Latin authors from Tertullian to Bede (d. 735), a

valuable “key” to verifying authorship (for example, the actual
authors of many sermons attributed to St. Augustine are
identified) and locating editions and manuscript studies; only
material bearing on the establishment of the text is covered, not
critical studies.
 http://faculty.wlc.edu/thompson/fourth-century/index.htm?
http&&&faculty.wlc.edu/thompson/fourth-
century/Bibliographic/clavis.htm
 AMU Library: Reference Z7791.D45 1995
The New 'Clavis Patrum Latinorum'
 A list of the differences between the 1961 and

1995 editions of the Clavis Patrum Latinorum
may be found in J. VERHEYDEN, The New
'Clavis Patrum Latinorum', in Ephemerides
Theologicae Louvanienses 73 (1997) pp. 121-
143. This classifies the new texts by literary
genre.
 Verheyden does not include Latin translations
of Greek texts, a much neglected field in which
there has likewise been progress.
Manuals of Patrology
 Patrology / by Johannes Quasten.by Quasten
, Johannes, v. 1. The beginnings of patristic
literature -- v. 2. The ante-Nicene literature
after Irenaeus -- v. 3. The golden age of Greek
patristic literature from the Council of Nicaea
to the Council of Chalcedon -- v. 4. The golden
age of Latin patristic literature from the Council
of Nicea to the Council of Chalcedon.
 AMU Library: AMU Library: BR67 .Q3 1983
Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. Ed. Everett Ferguson et al.
2nd ed. 2 vols. New York 1997.
 To the seventh century. Contains 1,245

entries by 167 scholars. Whereas the
first edition (1990) helpfully included the
volume numbers of text editions in series
such as PL and CC.
Identifying Medievals
Dictionary of the Middle Ages / Joseph

R. Strayer, editor in chief. New York :
Scribner, c1982-c1989.
 AMU library: Reference D114 .D5 1982
Digital Libraries of the Fathers
Available through AMU Library

Electronic Resources
Library Textbases
 http://www.insideavemaria.org/Library/A
MU-electronicResources.asp
The Page will take you to these
searchable textbases
 Library of Latin Texts
[http://www.brepolis.net] – Contains a wide
range of classical, patristic, and medieval Latin
texts, along with selected modern texts.
 The Patrologia Latina Database
[http://pld.chadwyck.com/] – An electronic
version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul
Migne’s Patrologia Latina, containing the
works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in
200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in
1216.
Library of Medieval Texts
 http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cf
m?Action=View&Category=Theology
 http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/medieval.h
tml
Researching Secondary
Literature
Databases, Bibliographies
Classics
 L'Année philologique
[http://www.annee-philologique.com/] -
Extensive bibliography of over 600,000
records of scholarly work in Classical
Studies, published by the Société
Internationale de Bibliographie
Classique.
Medieval
 International Medieval Bibliography

 AMU Not Subscribed
Renaissance
 Iter Bibliography
[ [http://www.itergateway.org/databases.
cfm] – Contains citations for books,
articles, reviews, bibliographies,
catalogs, abstracts, discographies,
dissertations, and essays pertaining to
the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-
1700).
Theology
 ATLA--The ATLA Religion Database:

[http://firstsearch.oclc.org/] – Index to
over a million journal articles, book
reviews and essays in the subject of
religion and theology. Also includes the
full text of over 70 journal titles dating
back to 1924. For access, please obtain
the password at the reference desk.
Individual Books of Interest
patristics
Excerpts from Patristic Texts
 Ancient Christian commentary on

Scripture. New Testament ; 3 Luke /
edited by Arthur A. Just, Jr.
 Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press,
c2003.
 AMU Library: BS2595.53 .L85 2003

Journals and Journal
Collections
Patristic, Medieval, and
Renaissance
 Journal of Early Christian Studies
 Traditio
 Speculum
 Renaissance Quarterly
 American Benedictine Review
 Augustiniana
Medieval Latin
 Wenzel, Siegfried. Latin Sermon

Collections from Later Medieval England
Cambridge Studies 2005 p. 392.
Contemporary Uses
 Britten, Benjamin Cantata Misericordiae:

[reviewed in Tempo, 1963 (JStor) found
by Google Scholar. Good Samaritan >
Latin < hospital.]
Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols. New York 1982–89.
 The largest and most up-to-date encyclopedic

reference work in English, but of uneven
quality. Vol. 13 contains the analytical Index;
note the 7-page “accessus” outlining the
conventions used for indexing.
Garland has started a series of one-volume
“encyclopedias of the Middle Ages,” each
devoted to a single country. Medieval England,
Medieval France, and Medieval Scandinavia
are out; Medieval Italy is supposedly in the
pipeline.
Format for Reporting on Research--
 Use this form as the first (cover) page of your commentary

 1. Title of Work
 2. Clavis number or other standard identification: CPL ***
 3. Author Name (Anon. or Spur. if author unknown or doubted),
Dates, and Brief Bio.
 4. Date of Work
 5. Genre (Homily, Commentary, Epistula, etc.)
 6. Full Citation of edition used, section of work, page numbers.
Use Standard form.
 7. Brief description of the work and its use of the Parable
 8. Your Research Source: Found via: . . . .

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LATIN FATHERS OF THE

Standard collections of patristic and

 Sources Chrétiennes is a bilingual

 The collection is edited by the Institut

 The CSEL is intended to include the ecclesiastical

 Toronto Medieval Latin Texts Series :

 For Christian Latin authors from Tertullian to Bede (d. 735), a

 A list of the differences between the 1961 and

2nd ed. 2 vols. New York 1997.

 To the seventh century. Contains 1,245

Dictionary of the Middle Ages / Joseph

Available through AMU Library

 International Medieval Bibliography

 ATLA--The ATLA Religion Database:

 Ancient Christian commentary on

 AMU Library: BS2595.53 .L85 2003

 Wenzel, Siegfried. Latin Sermon

 Britten, Benjamin Cantata Misericordiae:

 The largest and most up-to-date encyclopedic

 Use this form as the first (cover) page of your commentary

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