New from Edizioni Carmelitane | Author: Sr. Éliane Poirot, OCD
Les prophètes Élie et Élisée au Moyen Âge Latin:
Tome 1, 2, 3 et 4
In the preamble to the Constitutions of the London Chapter in 1281, for the first time in a Carmelite document preserved to this day, mention is made of the two prophets Elijah and Elisha. In this Rubrica prima, which answers the question of the origins of the Order, we find a statement that would be constantly repeated and developed in the centuries that followed: the Order of Carmel goes back to the prophets Elijah and Elisha, and Carmelites are the successors of all those who led a monastic life on Mount Carmel.
What was the background to this assertion? In an attempt to answer this question, we looked at Christian literature as a whole, and saw how the patristic tradition saw the prophet Elijah as an archetypal monk, with Elisha as the disciple par excellence. We now turn our attention to written sources from the Carolingian period to the 13th century, mainly through biblical commentaries on the Elijah and Elisha cycles, on the Transfiguration of Christ recounted in the Synoptic Gospels and on the two witnesses of the Apocalypse (Rev 11), as well as sermons. Most of these texts have been translated into French for the first time.
About the Author:
Sr Éliane Poirot, O.C.D., entered the Carmel de Nancy in 1965, and made solemn profession in 1970. She co-founded the Byzantine-rite Carmel of Saint-Remy in 1974, the Fraternité Saint-Élie in 1991, and the Romanian skite of Stânceni in 1994.
She holds a doctorate in Catholic theology and a university diploma in medieval Latin from the University of Strasbourg, as well as a diploma from the Saint-Serge Institute of Orthodox Theology in Paris.
She is the author of over a hundred articles and a dozen books, including several on the prophets Elijah and Elisha.
Tome 1: Vllle-IXe siècles. L'époque carolingienne
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Tome 2: Xe-début-XIIe siècle. Des commentaires carolingiens à la Glossa ordinaria
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Tome 3: La renaissance et le tournant du XIIe siècle
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Tome 4: XIIIe siècle. L'essor des universités
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