Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists |
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Report No. a023 |
Alanus de Insulis |
c.1130–1203 |
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Alternative Names |
Alanus, de Insulis (LC); Alain de Lille; Alan of Lille; Alanus ab Insulis; Alano di Lilla; Alanus Porretanus; Alain de ’Isle; Alain von Ryssel |
Biography/Description |
Professor of theology at Paris. Besides other literary and poetic works such as the Anticlaudianus, he wrote a penitential handbook, Liber poenitentialis (c.1200). |
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Entry by: KP rev AL 2015 |
Text(s) |
No. 1 | Liber penitentialis. |
Text(s) – Modern Editions |
No. 1 |
Liber penitentialis. |
Modern Editions |
Printed in PL 210.281 ff. |
Literature |
P. Michaud-Quantin, Sommes de casuistique et manuels de confession au moyen âge XII – XVI siècles (Louvain 1962) 15–19. |
P. Michaud-Quantin, ‘Le “Liber penitentialis” d’Alain de Lille. Le temoignage des manuscrits belges et francais’, Citeaux, 10 (1959) 93–106. |
M. Bloomfield, ‘A Preliminary List of Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, mainly of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries’, Traditio, 11 (1955) n.61. |