Otloh of Sankt Emmeram
Otloh of St Emmeram (also Othlo) (c. 1010 – c. 1072) was a
St Emmeram's in Regensburg.[1]
Life
Otloh was born around 1010 in the
Fulda, where he remained until 1067. After a short stay at the Franconian monastery of Amorbach
, he returned to Regensburg and spent the rest of his days on literary work, most notably a quasi-autobiographical account of the temptations he had overcome during his life (the Liber de tentationibus suis) and a collection of visionary tales, including his own (the Liber visionum).
Otloh appears to have been the music theory teacher of
Works
Otloh's works are collected in volume 146 of Migne, Patrologia Latina, columns 27-434, including:
- Dialogus de suis tentationibus, varia fortuna et scriptis
- Life of Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg
- Life of Saint Boniface
- Life of Saint Alto
- Life of Saint Magnus
- Dialogus de tribus quæstionibus
- De promissionis bonorum et malorum causis
- De cursu spirituali
- De translatione s. Dionysii e Francia in Germaniam (fragmentary)
- De miraculo quod nuper accidit cuidam laico
- De admonitione clericorum et laicorum
- De spirituali doctrina
- Liber Proverbiorum
- Sermo in natali apostolorum
- Liber visionum tum suarum tum aliorum
Modern critical editions
- Othloni Libellus Proverbiorum, ed. G.C. Korfmacher (Loyola University Press, 1936); see, however, the review by Bernhard Bischoff in Historisches Jahrbuch 57 (1937), who unlike Korfmacher addresses the work's multiple recensions.
- Otloh von St. Emmeram 'Liber de temptatione cuiusdam monachi'. Untersuchung, kritische Edition und Übersetzung, trans. and ed. Sabine Gäbe (Peter Lang, 1999).
- Liber Visionum, ed. Paul Gerhard Schmidt in MGH Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte (Böhlau, 1989).
- Translationis et inventionis sancti Dionysii Ratisponensis historia, ed. Adolf Hofmeister in MGH Scriptores vol. 30/2 (Hiersemann, 1926), 823-37.
- Vitae Bonifatii libri duo, ed. Wilhelm Levison in Vitae Sancti Bonifatii archiepiscopi Mogutini (MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi, vol. 57) (Hahn, 1905), 111-217.
- Vita sancti Magni, ed. in Maurice Coens, "La Vie de S. Magne de Füssen par Otloh de St.-Emmeran," Analecta Bollandiana 81 (1963): 159-227.
English translations
An excerpt of the Liber de tentationibus is translated in Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society, ed. Michael Goodich (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), 159-63. A complete translation of the Liber de tentationibus and Liber visionum currently is in preparation for Broadview Press's "Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures" series.
Critical studies
- Evans, Gillian (1977). "Studium discendi: Otloh von St. Emmeram and the Seven Liberal Arts". Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale. 44: 29–54.
- Joyce, Ellen (2005). "Scribal Performance and Identity in the Autobiographical Visions of Otloh of St. Emmeram (d. 1067)". S2CID 162286686.
- Otten, Willemien (1997). "The Bible and the Self in Medieval Autobiography: Otloh of St. Emmeram (1010-1070) and Peter Abelard (1079-1142)". In John McCarthy; David Aune (eds.). The Whole and Divided Self: The Bible and Theological Anthropology. Crossroads. pp. 130–57.
- Resnick, Irven (1986). "Litterati, Spirituales, and Lay Christians according to Otloh of Saint Emmeram". S2CID 161396107.
- Resnick, Irven (1987). "Scientia liberalis, Dialectics, and Otloh of St. Emmeram". .
- Röckelein, Hedwig (1987). Otloh, Gottschalk, Tnugdal: Individuelle und kollektive Visionsmuster des Hochmittelalters. Peter Lang.
- Schauwecker, Helga (1966). "Otloh und die St. Emmeramer Fälschungen des 11. Jahrhunderts". Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins für Oberpfalz und Regensburg. 106: 103–20.
- Schauwecker, Helga (1964). Otloh von St Emmeram: Ein Beitrag zur Bildungs- und Frommigkeitsgeschichte des 11. Jahrhunderts. Bayerische Benediktiner-Akademie.
- Schmid, Alois (1989). "'Auf glühendem Thron in der Hölle': Gebhard III., Otloh von St. Emmeram und die Dionysiusfälschung". Ratisbona Sacra. Das Bistum Regensburg im Mittelalter. Kunstsammlungen des Bistums Regensburg - Diözesanmuseum Regensburg. Kataloge und Schriften. Vol. 6. Schnell und Steiner. pp. 119–21.
- Uskov, Nikolai (1999). "Die Conversio eines Mönches im 11. Jahrhundert. Otloh von St. Emmeram bei der Arbeit an seiner Autobiographie". Verhandlungen des Historisches Vereins für Oberpfalz und Regensburg. 139: 1–39.
- Vinay, Gustavo (1970). "Otloh di St. Emmeramo ovvero l'autografia di un nevrotico". La storiografia altomedievale. pp. 13–37.
Notes
- ^ Hiley 2001.
- ^ On the Translatio sancti Dionysii, see most recently Schmid, "'Auf glühendem Thron in der Hölle'." Otloh's role in the forgeries was asserted by Johannes Lechner, "Zu den falschen Exemtionsprivilegien für St. Emmeram (Regensburg)," Neues Archiv 25 (1900): 627-35; see more recently, however, Philipp-Schauwecker, "Otloh und die St. Emmeramer Fälschungen des 11. Jahrhunderts".
- ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
Sources
- Hiley, David (2001). "Otloh of St Emmeram". required)
External links
- Media related to Otloh of Sankt Emmeram at Wikimedia Commons
- (in Latin) Othlonus Ratisbonensis in documentacatholicaomnia.eu