Jean Beleth

John Beleth ( bl. 1135-1182 ) was a teacher of church in medieval France. He is best known as the author of the Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis which is considered an important source of the liturgy in the 12th century today.

Life

Beleth stayed in 1135 in the monastery Tiron, about 35 km west of Chartres, on. He was a pupil of Gilbert of Poitiers. According to Henry of Ghent Beleth later served as rector of a church school in Paris. 1182 he worked in the church of Amiens.

Before 1165 he wrote the Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis which later became to a large extent in the rationale divinorum officiorum of Durandus of Mende.

Work

  • Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis, in Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, vol. 41A, edited by Heribert Douteil, Turnhout (1976 )
  • Sum of the ecclesiastical Uffizi, introduction, translation and notes by Lorenz Weinrich, Brepols, Turnhout / Belgium (2012 ), ISBN 978-2-503-54334-5

Source

  • Henry Summerson: Jean Beleth. From: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. ISBN 0 - 19-861411 -X.
  • Catholic Theologian (12th century)
  • Born in the 11th or 12th century
  • Died in the 12th or 13th century
  • Man
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