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Abbot Vitalis of Savigny, Abbot Godfrey of Savigny, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo

Title
Abbot Vitalis of Savigny, Abbot Godfrey of Savigny, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo / introduced, translated and edited by Hugh Feiss, OSB, Maureen M. O'Brien, Ronald Pepin.
Publication
Athens, Ohio : Cistercian Publications ; Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Feiss, Hugh.
  • O'Brien, Maureen M.
  • Pepin, Ronald E.
  • Etienne, de Fougères, Bishop of Rennes, -1178.
Description
xiii, 241 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
"This volume offers translations of the twelfth-century Latin vitae of four monks of the Monastery of Savigny: Abbot Vitalis, Abbot Godfrey, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo. Founded in 1113 by Vitalis of Mortain, an influential hermit-preacher, Savigny expanded to a congregation of thirty monasteries under his successor Godfrey (1122-1138). In 1147, the entire congregation joined the Cistercian Order. Around 1172, two monks of Savigny, Peter of Avranches and Hamo, friends but very different personalities, died. Their stories were told in two further vitae.The vitae of these four men exemplify the variety of people and movements found in the monastic ferment of the twelfth century. "-- Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
  • The lives of monastic reformers ; 2
  • Cistercian studies series ; number 230
Uniform Title
  • Vita Gaufridi. English.
  • Vita B. Petri Abrincensis. English.
  • Vita B. Hamonis. English.
  • Cistercian studies series. Lives of monastic reformers ; 2.
  • Cistercian studies series ; no. 230.
Subject
  • Vitalis, of Savigny, Saint, -1122
  • Godfrey, of Savigny, Abbot, active 1122-1138
  • Peter, of Avranches
  • Hamo, Blessed
  • Abbaye de Savigny (Savigny, Manche, France) > Biography
  • Cistercians > Savigny (Manche) > Biography
  • Benedictines > Savigny (Manche) > Biography
Note
  • The vita of Abbot Vitalis was written by Stephen of Fougères; the remaining three vitae are anonymous.
  • "All four of these lives are translated from editions of E.P. Sauvage, the vitae of Vitalis and Godfrey from "Vitae BB. Vitalis et Gaufridi, primi et secundi abbatum Saviniacensium in Normannia," Analecta Bollandiana 1 (1882): 355-410, and the vitae of Peter of Avranches and Hamo "Vitae B. Petri Abrincensis et B. Hamonis monachorum coenobii Saviniacensis," Analecta Bollandiana 2 (1883): 475-560."--Title page verso.
Language (note)
  • In English, translated from the original Latin.
ISBN
  • 9780879072308 (paperback)
  • 087907230X (paperback)
  • 9780879076931 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014016177
OCLC
  • ocn883206994
  • 883206994
  • SCSB-5781258
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries