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Document Details : Title: From Philosophy to Piety Subtitle: The Reappearance of Ghost Stories from Henry Bate's Speculum divinorum in a Late 15th-Century Middle Dutch Devotional Manuscript Author(s): FRAETERS, Veerle , VAN DE BERG, Marjan Journal: Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales Volume: 92 Issue: 2 Date: 2025 Pages: 437-463 DOI: 10.2143/RTPM.92.2.3295165 Abstract : The focus of this article is a hitherto unstudied cluster of seven exempla on spirit apparitions in the Middle Dutch manuscript Utrecht, UB, 1016, a multitext codex made in the context of the Devotio Moderna. The vernacular exempla are translations of Latin mirabilia from parts XVII and XIX of Henry Bate’s Speculum divinorum. This article offers an edition and comparative analysis of the Latin and Middle Dutch versions of the three stories taken from part XIX of the Speculum, and presents a preliminary discussion of the textual variations in relation to the different functions the exempla fulfill in Bate’s philosophical work and the devotional Utrecht manuscript, respectively. As no other vernacular translations of works by Henry Bate are known to date, this article breaks new ground in Bate studies. Moreover, it contributes to a better understanding of the circulation of ghost stories in the context of the Devotio Moderna. |
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