Johannes Beleth

Gilbert von Portiers with his students, below right Johannes Beleth

Johannes Beleth ( bl. 1135 - 1182 ) was a church teacher in medieval France . He is known as the author of the Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis , which is today an important source of the liturgy in the 12th century.

Life

Beleth stayed in 1135 in the monastery of Tiron, about 35 km west of Chartres . He was a student of Gilbert of Poitiers . According to Heinrich von Gent , Beleth later worked as the rector of a church school in Paris . In 1182 he worked in the church of Amiens .

Before 1165 he wrote the Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis , which later became largely part of the Rationale divinorum officiorum of Durandus von Mende . In this work u. a. the festival of fools (lat. festum stultorum) mentioned for the first time .

plant

• Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis , in: PL 202, col. 9-166.
• Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis , in: Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis , vol. 41A, edited by Heribert Douteil, Turnhout (1976)
• Sum of the ecclesiastical offices , introduction, translation and comments by Lorenz Weinrich , Brepols, Turnhout / Belgium (2012), ISBN 978-2-503-54334-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Musica. Sacred and secular music of the Middle Ages, ed. v. Vera Minazzi. Freiburg: Herder, 2011, p. 156.

source

• Henry Summerson: Jean Beleth. From: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004. ISBN 0-19-861411-X .