This new Latin edition with facing pages of English translation of English scholar John Colet's (1467-1519) commentary on Dionysus the Areopagite's Ecclesiasical Hierarchy is based on a manuscript in the British Library. Lochman (English, Texas State U.) says the work includes expansive digression from and adaptation of the source, which reveal many of the writer's perspectives on religion and 16th-century culture, in connection to the foundations of the Tudors and their intellectual, political, and religious efforts at outreach to and alienation from the continent. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This first new edition in almost 150 years and first edition of the complete manuscript is edited critically, translated expertly, and provided with an apparatus that identifies a coherent center for Colet’s theology and agenda for reform in Tudor England.