Full Description
The 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.
Contents
Preface
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
