Stephen of Bourbon

Stephen de Bourbon (Stephen of Bourbon) and Etienne de Bourbon (* 1190 in Belleville , † 1261 in Lyon ) was a Dominican - Inquisitor of the 13th century. He was the author of the most important specimen collection for preachers , the so-called " Exempla " of this century: the Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus (short: De diversis materiis predicabilibus ). Along with Jacques de Vitry , he was the most important religious storyteller in medieval France.

biography

Etienne de Bourbon was born in Belleville near Lyon at the end of the 12th century . From 1217 to 1223 he joined the Dominicans in Paris .

From about 1223 to 1250 he was preacher general , who developed his activities in many places, for example in the area of Lyon (which at that time formed part of the German Empire ), Bourgogne , Lorraine , Forez , the Massif Central , the diocese of Valence , the Roussillon , the Savoie .

Étienne de Bourbon became one of the first inquisitors. He wrote a catalog of the "errors" of belief. This list was reused by other inquisitors, such as B. by Bernard Gui in the 14th century in his Manuel de l'Inquisiteur .

Around 1250 he undertook to work out the Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus . It contained over 3000 stories of various origins. The original manuscript is lost. One of the most important manuscripts of the 13th century, now kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , was found in the Bibliothèque of the Sorbonne , chained to prevent its theft.

Etienne de Bourbon died in 1261.

Movie

• The film Le Moine et la sorcière

expenditure

• Stephani de Borbone, Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus , éd. Jacques Berlioz et Jean-Luc Eichenlaub (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis 124 / 124A / 124B), Turnhout, 2002/2006/2015 / Humbert de Romans , Le Don de crainte ou l'Abondance des exemples , traduit du latin et présenté par Christine Boyer, Postface de Jacques Berlioz, / Lyon, PUL, 2003, 242 p.
• Etienne de Bourbon: Anecdotes historiques, legends et apologues tirés du recueil inédit d'Etienne de Bourbon dominicain du XIIIe siècle / publiés [...] par A. Lecoy de La Marche. - A Paris: Renouard: Henri Loones, 1877
• Summa bonorum: a German collection of examples from the 15th century after Stephan von Bourbon; Edition and investigation , ed. by Susanne Baumgarte; Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1999 (texts from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period; H. 40)

literature

• Christoph Daxelmüller : Stephanus von Bellavilla . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 8, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89659-908-9 , column 128 f.
• Johannes Madey :  Stephan of Bourbon. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1364-1365.
• Peter Segl: Stephan v. Bourbon (also by Belleville). In: LThK ³ 9, 963

Web links

• Anecdotes historiques Excerpt from the stories of Étienne de Bourbon (French)
• Stephanus de Borbone (mgh)