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The Dialogue on Miracles Caesarius of Heisterbach

The Dialogue on Miracles By Caesarius of Heisterbach

The Dialogue on Miracles by Caesarius of Heisterbach

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The Dialogue on Miracles: Volume 1 by Caesarius of Heisterbach

Caesarius was a monk at the Cistercian monastery of Heisterbach in Germany, where he served as Master of novices. For their instruction and edification, he composed his lengthy Dialogue on Miracles in twelve sections between 1219 and 1223. The many surviving manuscripts of this and other works by Caesarius attest to his stature in the history of Cistercian letters.

This volume contains sections one through six of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogue on Miracles, the first complete translation into English of an influential representation of exempla literature from the Middle Ages. Caesarius's stories provide a splendid index to monastic life, religious practices, and daily life in a tumultuous time.

The Dialogue on Miracles Reviews

Written in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, Caesarius of Heisterbach s Dialogus miraculorum is a major work of the Middle Ages. A treasure trove of Cistercian exemplary stories, the Dialogue offers many avenues to deepen our understanding of medieval life, both inside and outside of the cloister. Ronald Pepin deserves all our gratefulness for taking upon himself the daunting task to translate this long work: his lively and accurate new rendition finally makes the Dialogue available to a larger public. General readers, students and scholars alike will also greatly benefit from Hugh Feiss highly readable and stimulating introduction. Together with Victoria Smirnova s recent volume on Medieval Exempla in Transition, this volume brings new and well-deserved attention to a master storyteller, Caesarius, and to the central role of narratives in the Medieval world.
Stefano Mula, Middlebury College

At times, the working of the medieval mind seems very foreign and strange. Yet the very strangeness of these stories have illuminated my faith. As a working priest, I have found these sermon stories from Heisterbach slipping into my everyday conversations with parishioners. We talk about some illustration or notion found in the Dialogue on Miracles, and then fall into a contemplative silence for a moment, full of wonder and delight.
The Rev. Karl Stevens, Rector, St. Stephen s Episcopal Church, Columbus, Ohio

About Caesarius of Heisterbach

Ronald E. Pepin received his PhD from Fordham University. In addition to The Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1 and 2 (in collaboration with Hugh Feiss and Maureen O Brien), his published translations include The Vatican Mythographers (Fordham, 2008), Anselm & Becket (PIMS, 2009), and Sextus Amarcius: Satires (DOML: Harvard, 2011).

Hugh B. Feiss, OSB, is a monk of the Monastery of the Ascension in Jerome, Idaho. He earned MA and MDiv degrees from Mount Angel Seminary, licentiates in theology and philosophy from The Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in theology at Sant'Anselmo. He served as managing editor and contributor for the ten-volume series Victorine Texts in Translation (Brepols). For Cistercian Publications he has translated works of Peter of Celle and Achard of Saint Victor and collaborated on Saint Mary of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse, and The Lives of Monastic Reformers,1 and 2. He was co-editor and contributor of A Benedictine Reader, 530-1530 (Cistercian Publications, 2019).

Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xii
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction, by Fr. Hugh Feiss, OSB 1
Text and Translation, by Ronald E. Pepin 75
The Dialogue on Miracles 77
Prologue 79
First Section: On Conversion 83
Second Section: On Contrition 139
Third Section: On Confession 203
Fourth Section: On Temptation 273
Fifth Section: On Demons 389
Sixth Section: On Simplicity 465

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NPB9780879071226
9780879071226
0879071222
The Dialogue on Miracles: Volume 1 by Caesarius of Heisterbach
Caesarius of Heisterbach
Cistercian Fathers Series
New
Paperback
Liturgical Press
2023-07-31
536
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