Alan of Lille's De Fide Catholica or Contra Haereticos

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SUMMARIUM B. W. O'DWYER , The Crisis in the Cistercian Monasteries in Ireland in the Early Thirteenth Century ( )

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The Book of Experience : Alan of Lille's Use of the Classical Rhetorical Topos in his Pastoral Writings

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N. HÄRING , Alan of Lille's De Fide Catholica or Contra Haereticos N. HÄRING , Two Theological Poems Probably Composed by Alan of Lille . L. J. LEKAI, Medieval Cistercians and their Social Environment . The Case of

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ALAN OF LILLE'S DE FIDE CATHOLICA OR CONTRA HAERETICOS NIKOLAUS

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When the learned Cistercian Prior of Ter Diunen (Les Dunes ) in Flanders , Belgium , Charles de Visch ( d . 11.4.1666 ) , was preparing his

edition of the works of Alanus de Insulis , he examined a publication entitled Adversus haereticos et Valdenses which had appeared in Paris in 1612. For some unknown reason , its editor , I. Masson ( 1544-1611 ) , publiched only two books of this important treatise ' , although the author announces in the prologue that he divided his work into four .

Both chroniclers fail to mention Alan's Planctus , his Regule theologice and his Distinctiones , although they enjoyed considerable popularity . Alberic even draws attention to the dedication of the work to William of Montpellier .

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The fact that Alan spent some time at Montpellier has been well established by B. Hauréau who discovered a note in a collection of sermons ( MS Paris . B.N. Lat . 14859 , f . 233 , s . xiii ) to the effect that Master Alan de Insula translated into Latin a sermon delivered in the vernacular at Montpellier by a Cistercian abbot The princeps addressby reigned ed Alan was William VIII who from 1152-1202 Alan's dedicavery high regard for William's learning by submitting tion betrays ,

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Chronicon MGH SS 23 881 Hauréau Mém sur vie 12. See Delisle Inventaire Bibl de l'Ecole des Chartes 30 1886 Fonds of Saint Victor d'Alverny Alain 121. Some 227 of Alan's sermons have been identified by B. Schneyer Repertorium der lat.Sermones des Longère Alain de Lille Liber poenitenMittelalters Beiträge 1969 69-83 tialis Anal Med Namurc Louvain 1965 210-224 holds that Alan wrote his Liber poenitentialis in Southern France He dedicated to the former Cistercian Henry of Sully archbishop of Bourges 1183-99 Lecoy de Marche Anedoctes tirés du recueil inédit d'Etienne de Bourbon Paris 1877 Nrs 293 and 426 pp 247 and 370 Cum magister Alanus legeret apud Montem Pessulanum Quod magister Alanus probauit militibus apud Montem Pestheologia sulanum ubi incipienti legere Rouquette and Villemagne Cartulaire de Maguelone Montpellier 1912

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was still in Montpellier in July 1200. The princeps addressed by Alan is more commonly known at comes , Count William VIII of Montpellier " . It has been argued that Alan's reference to an excommunication of the Waldensians issued by the Lateran Council 30 enables us to place the