Description
Book SynopsisThe Opus arduum valde is a Latin commentary on the Book of Revelation, written in England by an unknown scholarly author in the years 1389–1390. The book originated from the early Wycliffite movement and reflects its experience of persecution in apocalyptic terms. In England it soon fell into oblivion, but was adopted by radical exponents of the fifteenth-century Bohemian Hussites. In the sixteenth century Luther obtained a copy of the Opus arduum valde which he had printed in Wittenberg with his own preface in 1528. This remarkable document of religious dissent in late medieval Europe, highly regarded in Lollard and Hussite studies, is now for the first time made available in a critical edition.
Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction: The Opus arduum valde: Origin—Character—Tradition—Edition Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele 1 Opus arduum valde: The Title 2 The Author 3 The Current Situation 4 Date and Place of Writing 5 Sources 6 The Prologues 7 Content and Main Aspects 8 The Theological Profile of the OAV 9 An Attempt to Identify the Author 10 The OAV in Bohemia 11 The Manuscripts 12 Reconstruction of the History of Transmission and Formation of a Stemma Codicum Excursus: The Transmission of OAV 7 13 The Edition by Martin Luther 14 Editorial Principles Opus arduum valde Prologues Apocalypsis I Apocalypsis II Apocalypsis III Apocalypsis IV Apocalypsis V Apocalypsis VI Apocalypsis VII Apocalypsis VIII Apocalypsis IX Apocalypsis X Apocalypsis XI Apocalypsis XII Apocalypsis XIII Apocalypsis XIV Apocalypsis XV Apocalypsis XVI Apocalypsis XVII Apokalypsis XVIII Apocalypsis XIX Apocalypsis XX Apocalypsis XXI Apocalypsis XXII Bibliography Index
