The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor by Field Sean L.;

Author:Field, Sean L.; [Field, Sean L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL033000 Religion / History
ISBN: 3441090
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2014-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

APPENDIX A

Translations of the Trial Documents

This appendix offers English translations of the documents in Paris, Archives nationales de France, carton J428, nos. 15 to 19bis. They are presented in chronological order according to the dates on which the documents were originally issued. All of these Latin documents have been previously edited, most more than once. Paul Verdeyen’s edition is the most recent and complete, so my translation takes his work as a starting point. Because Verdeyen’s edition is not without problems, however, I have consulted the original documents and noted places where they differ from Verdeyen’s readings. The only other recent edition is Robert E. Lerner’s presentation of all the documents relevant to Guiard of Cressonessart. In the notes I indicate errors in Verdeyen’s edition (though excluding most cases that are simply misspellings, since these do not affect translation), and where there are meaningful discrepancies between Verdeyen’s and Lerner’s readings of these documents I give the correct manuscript reading. For the documents concerning Marguerite Porete, Verdeyen corrected many of the errors in the earlier transcriptions published by Henry Charles Lea and Charles-Victor Langlois (the latter also partially edited one document concerning Guiard). I do not note those earlier errors, except in several instances where misreadings by Lea and Langlois have caused lasting confusion.

Just before this book went to press, Elizabeth A. R. Brown generously shared with me her own transcription of these documents and critiqued my translations, which are much stronger as a result.

The canon lawyers and theologians who appear in the documents that follow are not identified in the notes because they have been treated elsewhere in this book. The men listed at the beginning of document VII, however, are briefly noted. Words within square brackets are editorial insertions, generally intended to clarify the referent of a pronoun or to more clearly identify a person.

Nos. 15 and 16 are in the hand of Jacques of Vertus. Nos. 17 and 18 are in a second hand, similar to and contemporary with that of nos. 15 and 16. Nos. 19 and 19bis are then in a third similar and contemporary hand.

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