Emendatio vitae. Orationes ad honorem nominis Ihesu
Edited by Nicholas Watson. TMLT 21. 1995. viii, 88 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–471–4 • $19.95
Toronto Medieval Latin Texts
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Latin Colloquies from Pre-Conquest Britain
TMLT 22. 1996. x, 134 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–472–1 • $19.95
Collationes de beata virgine
Edited by M. Michèle Mulchahey. TMLT 24. 1997. viii, 119 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–474–5 • $19.95
A Book of British Kings: 1200 BC–1399 AD
TMLT 26. 2000. viii, 112 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–476–9 • $19.95
The Ancestry of Jesus: Excerpts from Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David filii Abraham (Matthew 1:1–17)
TMLT 28. 2005. viii, 136 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–478–3 • $19.95
The Deposition of Richard II. “The Record and Process of the Renunciation and Deposition of Richard II” (1399) and Related Writings
TMLT 29. 2007. viii, 104 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–479–0 • $19.95
An Epitome of Biblical History: Glosses on Walter of Châtillon's 'Alexandreis' 4.176–274
TMLT 30. 2008. x, 94 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–480–6 • $19.95
Sermons of William of Newburgh
Edited by A.B. Kraebel. TMLT 31. 2010. x, 118 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–481–3 • $19.95
Historia calamitatum: Consolation to a Friend
Edited from Troyes, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes, MS 802 by ALEXANDER ANDRÉE
TMLT 32. x, 108 pp. 2015. ISBN 978-0-88844-482-0 • $19.95
Peter Abelard’s Letter to a Friend, frequently known as The Story of My Calamities, recounts the meteoric and disastrous career of one of the driving forces of the twelfth-century renaissance. The son of a minor Breton noble family, a public intellectual who turned the academic establishment on its head, lover of Heloise, and sometimes his own worst enemy, Abelard produced in elegant prose one of the signal works of medieval autobiography. This new edition presents the Latin text as it appears in the earliest manuscript—until recently misdated by a hundred years—studded with a commentary that explicates the circumstances of its composition, context, and language.
Notes from the School of William de Montibus / Collecta ex diuersis auditis in scola magistri Willelmi de Monte
Edited from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 860 by ANDREW N.J. DUNNING
TMLT 33. x, 122 pp. 2016. ISBN 978-0-88844-483-7 • Paper • $19.95
Preserved in a single manuscript from the abbey library of Bury St Edmunds, and here edited for the first time, Samuel Presbiter’s series of short, extensively annotated poems offers a rare record of one of the innovative formats that medieval schoolmasters used to engage students beyond conventional lectures. The text affords the reader a vivid experience of immersion in the pedagogical techniques of the twelfth-century classroom. The poems and commentary present key lessons from the doctrinal instruction of William de Montibus (c. 1140–1213), the beloved master of the school of Lincoln Cathedral.
The Disputatio puerorum: A Ninth-Century Monastic Instructional Text
Edited from Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 458
TMLT 34. viii, 102 pp. 2017. ISBN 978-0-88844-484-4 • Paper • $19.95
A school dialogue most likely composed in southeastern Germany in the early ninth century, the Disputatio puerorum offers a vivid and direct glimpse into the sort of instruction received by monastic novices and oblates in abbey schools of the Carolingian and Holy Roman Empires. Its question-and-answer format between students and master deploys an elementary Latin that would have consolidated linguistic skills at the same time as offering instruction on the nature of body and soul, the books of the Old and New Testaments, the Mass, and the Lord’s Prayer. The text’s intrinsic interest for historians of early medieval education is matched by its usefulness to modern students as a short course in what constituted basic cultural literacy in the monastic schoolrooms of the ninth through eleventh centuries, as drawn above all from the works of Isidore of Seville, but also from Augustine, Gregory the Great, Bede, and Alcuin.
Fifteen Medieval Latin Parodies
TMLT 35 • x, 122 pp. • 2018 • ISBN 978-0-88844-485-1 • Paper • $19.95
The fifteen short texts edited here offer vivid examples of the wit and irreverence of medieval Latin parody, a tradition whose humour – sometimes bookish, sometimes ribald, and often both – was never far from the cultures of monastery, school, and court. Mock sermons, prayers, Gospel-texts, and scholastic exercises all bear witness to the wry sensibilities indulged by scholars and clerics alike in their off-hours.
Historia Apollonii regis Tyri: A Fourteenth-Century Version of a Late Antique Romance
Edited from Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vaticanus latinus 1961
TMLT 36 • xii, 124 pp. • 2019 • ISBN 978-0-88844-486-8 • Paper • $19.95
With its shipwrecked princes, pirates, and princesses, the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri provided medieval Europe with one of its most popular and influential narratives.
Peter Comestor. Lectures on the Glossa ordinaria
Edited from Troyes, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes, MS 1024
TMLT 37 • xii, 158 pp. • 2021 • ISBN 978-0-88844-487-5 • Paper • $19.95
Edited for the first time from the late twelfth-century manuscript Troyes, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes, MS 1024, the prefatory material of Comestor’s lecture courses on the four glossed Gospels offers a unique glimpse into the classroom of one of Paris’s preeminent masters at the height of the renaissance of the twelfth century.