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Document Details : Title: Canisius als Herausgeber Subtitle: Die Ausgaben von Tauler (1543), Kyrill (1546) und Leo dem Großen (1546) Author(s): VAN DE SCHOOR, Rob Journal: Ons Geestelijk Erf Volume: 82 Issue: 2 Date: juni 2011 Pages: 161-186 DOI: 10.2143/OGE.82.2.2071239 Abstract : When producing his Antwerp edition (the seventeenth) of Tauler’s Sermons, Joannes de Lixbona compared a German edition of 1543 with a Latin translation by Laurentius Surius of 1548. Examination of Joannes’ edition shows that Surius omitted passages present in the German edition that might cause dogmatic dispute. These alterations shed new light on the question of whether Petrus Canisius, who joined the Jesuits in the same year as the German edition appeared, was in fact responsible for that 1543 edition. Further doubts regarding his authorship arise if one examines Canisius’ editions of Cyril and Leo the Great. These seem not so much an exercise in humanist philology – in a preface Canisius overtly confesses his disdain for humanist eloquence, which he thought obscured the simplicity of the Christian faith – as a means of pursuing polemical goals in the ongoing dispute with the Protestants. |
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