Wilhelm Peraldus

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Wilhelm Peraldus . Manuscript: Besançon BM 434.

Wilhelm Peraldus (Latin Guillelmus Peraldus , French Guillaume Peyraut ; * around 1200 probably in Peyraud ; † 1271 in Lyon ) was a French Dominican and moral theologian .

Life

Wilhelm entered the Dominican order around 1231. He was the author of many theological texts that were often used as templates for sermons and were widely used in the Middle Ages . His main work, the Summa de vitiis et de virtutibus (the part of the doctrine of vice around 1236, that of the virtues before 1249), has survived in over a hundred manuscripts and was printed several times in the 15th to 17th centuries. This work was translated into Italian, French, German and Dutch in the 14th and 15th centuries. It is a moral theological manual. Wilhelm wrote numerous sermons on the epistles in the years 1240–1245, before 1259 on the Gospels and from 1254 to 1259 on church holidays. De professione monachorum (1259/60), De eruditione religiosorum libri VI (1260/65) and the prince's mirror De eruditione principum (around 1265) were also widespread . The latter was still printed in the 16th century together with the works of Thomas Aquinas and translated into Old French, Italian and German. From 1261 to 1266 he was prior of the Dominican convent in Lyon.

Works

  • Summa de vitiis (1236/39)
  • Summa de virtutibus (approx. 1248)
  • De professione monachorum (1259/60)
  • De eruditione religiosorum libri VI (1260/65)
  • De eruditione principum (around 1265) online in the Corpus thomisticum
  • De vitiis (Lower Rhine, around 1430-1440) ( digitized version )

literature

  • Manfred Gerwing : Wilhelm Peraldus, in: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Vol. 9, 1998, Col. 182 f.
  • Franco Morenzoni: La bonne et la mauvaise honte dans la littérature pénitentielle et la prédication (fin XIIe-début XIIIe siècle), in: Shame Between Punishment and Penance. The Social Usages of Shame in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. La honte entre peine et penitence. Les usages sociaux de la honte au Moyen Age et au début de l'Époque modern. International conference / Colloque international, Paris, 21-23 octobre 2010, ed. v. Bénédicte Sère and Jörg Wettlaufer, Firenze (SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo) 2013 (Micrologus' Library, 54), pp. 177–196.
  • Louis-Charles-François Petit-Radel: Guillaume Perrault, frère prêcheur, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, Paris (Firmin Didot; Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz) Vol. 19, 1838, pp. 307-316.
  • Gunhild Roth: Wilhelm Peraldus, in: author lexicon , vol. 11, 2004, col. 1669.
  • Antoine Dondaine: Guillaume Peyraut. Vie et œuvres, in: Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, Vol. 18 (1948), pp. 162-236.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Repertory of edited texts from the Middle Ages in the field of philosophy and related areas, ed. v. Rolf Schönberge, Munich 2011, p. 1737 f.
  2. ↑ The Duties of the Nobility, ed. WE v. Ketteler, 1868
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm Peraldus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guillelmus peraldus; Guillaume Peyraut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Dominican and moral theologian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1200
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Peyraud
DATE OF DEATH 1271
Place of death Lyon