Miracles of the Virgin. Tract on Abuses

Nigel of Canterbury, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Ronald E. Pepin

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Harvard University Press
10 May 2023

Poetry; European history; History of religion; Christian Churches & denominations

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

The first English translation of the earliest Latin poems about miracles performed by the Virgin Mary, composed in twelfth-century Canterbury by a Benedictine monk who inspired Chaucer.

Nigel (ca. 1135–1198), a Benedictine monk at Christ Church in Canterbury, is best known for The Mirror of Fools-a popular satire whose hero Burnellus the Ass is referenced in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Nigel's oeuvre also includes other important poems and hagiography.

The Miracles of the Virgin is the oldest Latin poem about miracles performed by Mary. This collection features seventeen lively tales in which the Virgin rescues a disappointed administrator from a pact with the devil, has a Roman emperor killed by a long-dead martyr, saves a Jewish boy from being burned alive, and shields an abbess from the shame of pregnancy. Each story illustrates the boundlessness of Mary's mercy. In the Tract on Abuses, a letter that resembles a religious pamphlet, Nigel rails against ecclesiastical corruption and worldly entanglements.

Alongside authoritative editions of the Latin texts, this volume offers the first translations of both works into English.

By: Nigel of Canterbury
Edited and translated by: Jan M. Ziolkowski, Ronald E. Pepin
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780674660267
ISBN 10: 0674660269
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 10 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. Ronald E. Pepin earned his PhD in Classics at Fordham University. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Capital Community College, Hartford, CT.

Reviews for Miracles of the Virgin. Tract on Abuses

Offer[s] a fascinating amalgam of devotion, imagination, and wonder…Ziolkowski is to be congratulated for his skillful and meticulous work in bringing these little-known works to a contemporary readership. There is no doubt that many of today’s monastic readers will find these Marian miracles as fascinating and enchanting as did their medieval counterparts. -- Robert Nixon, O.S.B. * American Benedictine Review *