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Informationen zum Autor Charles Radding and Francis Newton Klappentext In the concluding stages of the eleventh-century Eucharistic Controversy! which turned on whether! and how! sacramental consecration changed the nature of bread and wine at the altar! Alberic of Monte Cassino composed a small but important treatise. Alberic was the most renowned teacher of rhetoric in his time! and his treatise! buttressed by appeal to the authority of the Church Fathers! was said by contemporaries to have "utterly destroyed" the argument of his opponent! Berengar of Tours! that the bread and wine survived its consecration. Modern scholars had long believed Alberic's treatise to be lost. This book demonstrates that this crucial document! far from being lost! is an existing identifiable text. By showing conclusively that this work was written by Alberic! Radding and Newton transform our understanding not only of the particulars of the controversy and papal politics but also of the intellectual process by which theological doctrines took shape in mediaeval Church councils. The book includes the full Latin text and the first translation of Alberic's treatise. Zusammenfassung In the 11th-century Eucharistic Controversy! Alberic of Monte composed a small but important treatise. His treatise was said to have destroyed the argument that the bread and wine survived its consecration. Modern scholars had long believed his treatise to be lost. This book demonstrates that this crucial document is an existing identifiable text. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefacePart I. Berengar of Tours and the Eucharistic ControversyIntroductionThe Carolingian Background and the Eleventh-Century DebateBerengar's Theology of the EucharistBerengar's Early CriticsThe Early CouncilsThe Aftermath of the Council of 1059: Lanfranc and GuitmundThe Movement Toward RomePart II. The Alberdeen Libellus Against Berengar of ToursThe ManuscriptThe Rubric and Morin's Attribution to Berengar of VenosaThe Treatise and It's AuthorAlberic of Monte Cassino and His "Lost" TreatisePart III. Style and Content of the LibellusAlberic's Literary WorkThe Literary Style of the Aberdeen LibellusThe Content of the LibellusConclusionPart IV. Berengar of Tours and the Roman Councils of 1078 and 1079The SourcesThe Council of All Saints! 1078Alberic and BerengarBerengar and Alberic at the Lenten Council! 1079Brief Epilogue: Berengar RemembersConclusion. The Text and Translation of the Libellus ...
