Homilia de assumptione b. Mariae, auctore Iohanne ep. Aretino
Standard abbreviation:
Other titles: none
Other designations: L6 in van Esbroeck’s classification of Dormition traditions
Clavis numbers: ECCA 143; CANT 118
Category: Dormition Accounts
Related literature:
Compiled by Tony Burke, York University.
Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style): Burke, Tony. “Dormition of the Virgin, by JOhn of Arezzo.” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/homily-on-the-assumption-of-mary-by-john-of-arezzo/.
Created September 2024.
1. SUMMARY
Named Historical Figures and Characters: Abraham (patriarch), Andrew (apostle), David (king), Holy Spirit, Isaac (patriarch), Jacob (patriarch), Jesus Christ, John (son of Zebedee), Mary (Virgin), Michael (angel), Paul (apostle), Peter (apostle), Satan.
Geographical Locations: Egypt, Israel, Gomorrah, Mount of Olives, Sodom.
2. RESOURCES
2.1 Web Sites and Other Online Sources
2.2 Art and Iconography
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Latin (BHL 5355m)
Wenger, Antoine. L’Assomption de la T.S. Vierge dans la tradition byzantine du VIe au Xe siècle. Études et documents. Archives de l’Orient chrétien 5. Paris: Institut français d’études byzantines, 1955 (edition, pp. 337–62).
excerpts
G. Philippart, Jean, évêque d’Arezzo (IXe s.), auteur du « De Assumptione » de Reichenau, in Analecta Bollandiana, 92 (1974), p. 345-346
O. Kurth, in Neues Archiv, 19 (1893), 462-467 (= prologus)
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
3.2.2 French
3.3 General Works
3.3.1 Dormition Narratives
Esbroeck, Michel van. “Les textes litteraires sur l’Assomption avant le Xe siècle.” Pages 265–85 in Les actes apocryphes des apôtres. Edited by François Bovon. Publications de la faculte de theologie de l’Universite de Geneve 4. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1981.
McNamara, Martin. “Transitus Mariae: General Introduction.” Pages 225–44 in Apocrypha Hiberniae II. Apocalyptica 2. Edited by Martin McNamara et al. CCSA 21. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
Mimouni, Simon. Dormition et assumption de Marie: Histoire des traditions anciennnes. Paris: Beauchesne, 1995.
__________. Les traditions anciennes sur la Dormition et l’Assomption de Marie: Études littéraires, historiques et doctrinales. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 104. Leiden: Brill, 2011 (pp. 166–67).
Shoemaker, Stephen J. Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
__________. Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Wenger, Antoine. L’Assomption de la T.S. Vierge dans la tradition byzantine du VIe au Xe siècle. Études et documents. Archives de l’Orient chrétien 5. Paris: Institut français d’études byzantines, 1955.
3.3.2 Homily on the Assumption of Mary, by John of Arezzo
H. Barré, in Études mariales, 19 (1962), 84-88
- Mimouni, Simon Claude. Dormition et Assumption de Marie. Histoire des traditions anciennes. Théologie Historique 98. Paris: Beauchesne, 1995 (see esp. pp. 261–64 and 281–86).
__________. Les traditions anciennes sur la Dormition et l’Assomption de Marie: Études littéraires, historiques et doctrinales. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 104. Leiden: Brill, 2011 (see esp. pp. 18–19, 165–96, and 184–96).
Shoemaker, Stephen J. Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 (pp. 35–37).