SOCIÉTÉ DES BOLLANDISTES
Tabularium Hagiographicum
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Ever since the very beginning, the Société des Bollandistes formed a centre of research whose members maintained relations with scholars, whatever their origin, who worked in various disciplines (theology, philosophy, history, archaeology, etc.).
The aim of this new collection, devoted to historiographic research, a field which is considered today to be particularly important, is to exploit the archives not only of the Bollandists and some of their correspondents but also of scholars who in modern and contemporary times have been interested in hagiography.
The publication of these documents constitutes a contribution of major importance to the history of critical scholarship as well as to that of the Church and the society in which these people worked.
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6. De Constantinople à Athènes. Louis Petit et les Bollandistes.
Correspondance d’un archevêque savant (1902-1926).
Présentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard JOASSART.
2010, 183 p., -- 45€
A native of Savoy, Louis Petit (1868-1927) became an Assumptionist in 1885. In 1895 he was sent to Kadiköy, the Asiatic suburb of Istanbul, to take charge of the research centre which was to become the Institut français des Études byzantines with its periodical Échos d’Orient. He quickly revealed his gifts as an excellent specialist in Byzantine studies and of the Christian Orient in general and he continued his research throughout the period 1912-1926 when he was Latin archbishop of Athens. For a quarter of a century he maintained close contacts with the Bollandist Hippolyte Delehaye (1859-1941), another celebrated Byzantinist.
The 70 letters edited here bear witness to the collaboration between the two scholars which led to the publication of Petit’s Bibliographie des acolouthies grecques in the collection Subsidia hagiographica. The letters also contain numerous details about the actual conditions, including those at Athens and on Mount Athos, in which the two scholars pursued their research as well as about the progress of Byzantine studies in the early twentieth century.
5. Éditer les martyrologes. Henri Quentin et les
Bollandistes.
Présentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard JOASSART .
2009, 240 p. -- 50.00€
The letters edited in this volume - over 160 - make it possible to follow the slow process which culminated in the publication of the critical edition of the Martyrologium Hieronymianum by Henri Quentin and Hippolyte Delehaye in 1931. They also reveal numerous exchanges of views by the two scholars on many other subjects: the edition of the Martyrologium Romanum in 1922, the activities of the Historical Section of the Congregation of Rites created in 1930, etc., at a time which was still very much marked by the consequences of the modernist crisis.
4. Pierre-François Chifflet, Charles Du Cange
et les Bollandistes. Correspondance.
Présentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard JOASSART .
2005, 305 p. -- 60.00€
The Jesuit Pierre-François Chifflet (1592-1682), who
was an acknowledged expert in the hagiography of France and of the region of
Franche-Comté in particular, was a valued collaborator of the early
Bollandists, to whom he sent many copies of hagiographic texts.
Charles Du Cange (1610-1688), who was interested in everything
to do with the history of France and Picardy as well as the history of the
Christian Orient and Byzantium , made ample use of the first volumes of
the Acta Sanctorum while preparing his Glossaries of late
Latin and late Greek. He too lent effective help to the hagiographers of Antwerp,
especially by his examination of the Greek manuscripts of the Colbert Library at
Paris .
The letters edited here bear witness to the scholarly exchanges between the Bollandist pioneers and the two Frenchmen as well as to their activities and their mutual esteem.
3. Érudition hagiographique au XVIII e siècle: Jean Lebeuf et
les Bollandistes. Correspondance.
Présentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard JOASSART .
2003, 212 p. -- 45.00€
Voltaire used to say of Jean Lebeuf (1687-1760), canon of Auxerre, that he was "l'un des plus savants hommes dans les détails de l'histoire de France". Curious about everything he applied his talents in various fields: history, both religious and secular, liturgy, music and hagiography. Amongst his correspondents he numbered the Bollandists, especially Jean- Baptiste Du Sollier (1669-1740), to whom he sent much information for the Acta Sanctorum. The exchange of letters between Lebeuf and the hagiographers of Antwerp as well as some files dealing with the saints of the Church of Auxerre bear ample witness to the scope and depth of their research.
2. Von Hügel, Turner et les Bollandistes. Correspondance.
Présentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard JOASSART .
2002, 157 p. -- 40.00€
Friedrich von Hügel (1852-1925), an autodidact whose main field of
competence was that of Biblical studies, was a prominent figure in the modernist
crisis. Amongst the vast network of relations, at the same time scholarly and friendly, which he maintained with numerous scholars of his day, were Bollandists, in particular Hippolyte Delehaye. The letters exchanged between von Hügel and Delehaye throw light upon the methods and demands of modern criticism. They also bear eloquent witness to the interference and vexations by which learned Catholics were confronted when they applied these methods.
As for the correspondence between Delehaye and Cuthbert H. Turner
(1860-1930), an Anglican, exegete and historian of the early centuries of
Christianity, it provides a touching example of the relations between two
scholars of different confessions who carried out their research with the greatest
of rigour but each with respect for the conscience of the other.
1. Monseigneur Duchesne et les Bollandistes. Correspondance.
Présentation, édition et commentaire par B. JOASSART.
2002, 252 p. -- 50.00€
A specialist in Christian Antiquity, director of the École Française de Rome, Mgr Louis Duchesne (1843-1922), whose Histoire ancienne de l'Église was placed on the Index in 1912, was a major figure in the modernist crisis. From the beginning of his career he maintained regular relations with the Bollandists, above all with Charles De Smedt, Hippolyte Delehaye, François Van Ortroy and Alfred Poncelet. The 122 letters edited in this volume give a full picture of the dialogue between the Frenchman and the Belgian hagiographers in their common concern to apply the principles of modern historical criticism to their discipline. At the same time they throw considerable light upon a period which was a particularly difficult one for many Catholic scholars.