Le Manipulus exemplorum : Un recueil d’exempla bénédictin à attribuer à Jean Bernier de Fayt († 1395)
(2014) Revue Benedictine : de critique, d’histoire et de litterature religieuses — Vol. 124, n° 2, p. 353-364 (2014)
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- (en) Whenever undertaking research on the topic of Saint Bavo's Benedictine abbot Jean Bernier de Fayt (ca 1320-1395), one can but notice that his Manipulus exemplorum, of which three manuscripts are preserved, is generally considered among scholars an anonymous work compiled in a 15th-century Crosiers convent. That is indeed the picture drawn by the pioneering studies on the exemplum genre Jean-Thiébaut Welter published in the Interbellum, the aforementioned scholar merely knowing one manuscript of the large Latin exempla collection. Therefore, the real nature of the Manipulus exemplorum is yet to be grasped: It seems the primary puropose of a Benedictine's work, its author more interested in anecdotes than in morals, might not be so straightforwardly understood as an homiletical one.
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Brix, A. (2014). Le Manipulus exemplorum : Un recueil d’exempla bénédictin à attribuer à Jean Bernier de Fayt († 1395). Revue Benedictine : de critique, d’histoire et de litterature religieuses, 124(2), 353-364. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.RB.5.103019 (Original work published 2014)