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A companion to Jean Gerson / edited by Brian Patrick McGuire.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 3.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.Description: xxvi, 431 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9004150099 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9789004150096 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Companion to Jean Gerson.DDC classification:
  • 282.092 22
LOC classification:
  • BX4705.G45 C597 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
In search of Jean Gerson : chronology of his life and works / Brian Patrick McGuire -- Gerson on lay devotion / Daniel B. Hobbins -- Discovering Gerson the humanist : fifty years of serendipity / Gilbert Ouy -- Making sense of it all : Gerson's Biblical theology / D. Zach Flanagin -- Gerson as conciliarist / Francis Oakley -- Gerson's mystical theology : a new profile of its evolution / Jeffrey Fisher -- Gerson as a preacher in the conflict between mendicants and secular priests / Nancy McLoughlin -- Gerson's stance on women / Wendy Love Anderson -- Jean Gerson and the debate on the Romance of the rose / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski -- Gerson's legacy / Yelena Mazour-Matusevich.
Summary: Annotation The Companion to Jean Gerson provides a guide to new research on Jean Gerson (1363-1429), theologian, chancellor of the University of Paris, and church reformer. Ten articles outline his life and works, contribution to lay devotion, place as biblical theologian, role as humanist, mystical theology, involvement in the conciliar movement, dilemmas as university master and conflicts with the mendicants, views on women and especially on female visionaries, participation in the debate on the "Roman de la Rose", and the afterlife of his works until the French Revolution. Some of the contributors are veterans of gersonian studies, while others have recently completed their dissertations. All map the relevance of Gerson to understanding late medieval and early modern culture, religion and spirituality. Readership: Anyone interested in medieval studies in all its aspects, but also early modernists, especially those concerned with the history of Christianity, spirituality, or gender studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-410) and indexes.

In search of Jean Gerson : chronology of his life and works / Brian Patrick McGuire -- Gerson on lay devotion / Daniel B. Hobbins -- Discovering Gerson the humanist : fifty years of serendipity / Gilbert Ouy -- Making sense of it all : Gerson's Biblical theology / D. Zach Flanagin -- Gerson as conciliarist / Francis Oakley -- Gerson's mystical theology : a new profile of its evolution / Jeffrey Fisher -- Gerson as a preacher in the conflict between mendicants and secular priests / Nancy McLoughlin -- Gerson's stance on women / Wendy Love Anderson -- Jean Gerson and the debate on the Romance of the rose / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski -- Gerson's legacy / Yelena Mazour-Matusevich.

Annotation The Companion to Jean Gerson provides a guide to new research on Jean Gerson (1363-1429), theologian, chancellor of the University of Paris, and church reformer. Ten articles outline his life and works, contribution to lay devotion, place as biblical theologian, role as humanist, mystical theology, involvement in the conciliar movement, dilemmas as university master and conflicts with the mendicants, views on women and especially on female visionaries, participation in the debate on the "Roman de la Rose", and the afterlife of his works until the French Revolution. Some of the contributors are veterans of gersonian studies, while others have recently completed their dissertations. All map the relevance of Gerson to understanding late medieval and early modern culture, religion and spirituality. Readership: Anyone interested in medieval studies in all its aspects, but also early modernists, especially those concerned with the history of Christianity, spirituality, or gender studies.

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