Gilbertus crispinus

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Gilbertus Crispinus , OSB (also Gilbert Crispin , Gislebertus Crispinus ; * around 1046 , † 1117 ) was a Norman theologian and abbot of Westminster .

Gilbert came from the Norman nobility. As a puer oblatus , his family entrusted him to the Le Bec Abbey, which they sponsored . In Bec Gilbert was tutored by Lanfrank and later by Anselm of Canterbury . After his installation as Archbishop of Canterbury , Lanfrank Gilbert, who in the meantime taught himself at the monastery school of Bec, came to England in 1079 and appointed him fourth abbot of Westminster in London in 1085. Gilbert held this office with great success until his death on December 6th, 1117.

In addition to numerous theological treatises and letters as well as a biography of the founder of Le Bec, Herluin von Brionne , which is regarded as the most reliable source for the first years of Le Bec Abbey, Gilbert also received five dialogues: the teacher-student conversation De spiritu sancto , the question-and-answer dialogues De Altaris Sacramento and De angelo perdito as well as the religious discussions Disputatio iudaei et christiani and Disputatio christiani cum gentili de fide christi , which arose between 1090 and 1095 .

The Disputatio iudaei et christiani , which was also continued by an anonymous author, attracted a great deal of attention early on and is preserved in 32 manuscripts. Whether the controversy between a Christian and a Jew, which was presented in this dialogue and conducted "in a patient spirit" ( toleranti animo ), actually took place or is mere fiction is debatable in research.

Works

  • Anna Sapir Abulafia, GR Evans (Ed.): The works of Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster . Oxford 1986, ISBN 0-19-726035-7 .
  • Religious conversations with a Jew and a Gentile: Latin-German . Herder's Library of the Philosophy of the Middle Ages Volume 1. Transl. And introduced by Karl Werner Wilhelm and Gerhard Wilhelmi. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-451-28506-1 .
    • Disputatio Iudaei et Christiani
    • Disputatio Christiani cum Gentili de Fide Christi
    • De Monachatu
    • Probatio de illa Peccatrice que unxit Pedes Domini
    • De Angelo Perdito
    • De Spiritu Sancto
    • De Altaris Sacramento
    • De Simoniacis
    • De anima
    • Sermo in Septuagesima
    • Sermo in Ramis Palmarum
    • De Creacione Sex Dierum
    • De Corpore et Sanguine Domini
    • De Confessione
    • Ad Anselmum Archiepiscopum
    • Vita Herluini

literature

  • Michael Borgolte : Christians and Jews in dispute. Medieval religious talks in a "spatial turn". In: Historical magazine . Vol. 286, 2008, pp. 359-402.
  • Gillian Rosemary Evans: "Omnibus Hiis Litteratior": Gilbert Crispin, Noted Theologian. In: Studi medievali . 3rd ser. 22, 1981, pp. 695-716.
  • Bernd Goebel :  Gilbert Crispin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. 484-493.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Bernd Goebel: Reason and Authority in Gilbert Crispin's Religious Discussions. In: Yearbook for Philosophy of Religion. Vol. 11 (2012), pp. 29-71.
  • Bernd Goebel: In the vicinity of Anselm. Biographical and bibliographical portraits of authors from Le Bec and Canterbury (= Fuldaer Hochschulschriften. Vol. 60). Echter, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-429-04381-0 , pp. 174-201.
  • Christopher Harper-Bill: Herluin, Abbot of Bec and his Biographer. In: Derek Baker (ed.): Religious Motivation. Biographical and Sociological Problems for the Church Historian. Papers Read at the 16th Summer Meeting and the 17th Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (= Studies in Church History. Vol. 15). Oxford 1978, pp. 15-25.
  • Klaus Jacobi : Gilbert Crispin - Between Reality and Fiction. In the S. (Ed.): Reading conversations. Philosophical dialogues in the Middle Ages (= ScriptOralia. Vol. 115). Tübingen 1999, pp. 125-137.
  • Joseph Armitage Robinson: Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster. A Study of the Abbey under Norman Rule (= Notes and Documents Relating to Westminster Abbey. Vol. 3). Cambridge 1911.
  • Anna Sapir Abulafia: Gilbert Crispin's Disputations: An Exercise in Hermeneutics. In: Dies .: Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in the West (c.1000–1150) (= Variorum Collected Studies Series. Vol. 621). Aldershot 1998, pp. VII.511 – VII.520 [first in: Raymonde Foreville (ed.): Les mutations socio-culturelles au tournant des XIe-XIIe siècles. Colloque organisé par le CNRS sous la présidence de Jean Pouilloux. Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec, le Bec Hellouin, 11-16 July 1982 (= Spicilegium Beccense. Vol. 2). Paris 1984, pp. 511-520].
  • Richard William Southern: St. Anselm and Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster. In: Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies. Vol. 3, 1954, pp. 78-115.
  • Hartmut Westermann: “Unius dei cultus” or “noster deus et vester deus”? Reference theoretical considerations on the monotheistic concept of God in Gilbert Crispin's “Disputatio christiani cum gentili de fide Christi”. In: Theology and Philosophy. Vol. 88, 2013, pp. 372-388.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Cf. Margaret Gibson: Lanfrank von Bec . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie 20 (1990), 434-436; here: 435, lines 40ff. ( Online version on Google Book Search ).
  2. ↑ Cf. The Continuation of the Disputatio Iudei et Christiani, in: The Works of Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster. Ed. Anna Sapir Abulafia, Gillian R. Evans (Auctores Britannici medii aevi, vol. 8) London 1986, 54-61.
personal data
SURNAME Gilbertus crispinus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilbert Crispin; Gislebertus crispinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English theologian, Abbot of Westminster
DATE OF BIRTH around 1046
DATE OF DEATH 1117