Historian Novosibirsk world’s first translated a treatise on the Crusades – a REGNUM

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Novosibirsk, 17 July 2015, 06:37 – REGNUM The young scientist from the Novosibirsk State University (NSU) Valentin Tailors the world’s first translated ancient treatise “On the preaching of the Holy Cross” from Latin into French and Russian. Prior to this medieval document never for one modern language is not translated, told the IA REGNUM at the NSU.

Valentin Tailors toured several countries in the world to get acquainted with all the surviving manuscripts of the works Humbert Romance in the original or a copy. This treatise is the only extant “textbook” for the preachers of the crusade.

The very historian said that about a certain treatise, which remained virtually unnoticed in science, seven years ago, he told the supervisor of Professor Nicole Beriu from France. “Honestly, nowadays rarely any scientist so lucky as me. Because many studies now, and here – an important document blatantly left untouched by historians “, – says Tailors.

« On the preaching of the Holy Cross »(De predicatione sancte crucis) – a treatise of the Dominican significant: Fifth General Master of the Order of Preachers, Humbert Romanesque. The manuscript, written between 1266 and 1268 years and consists of the heads of 44.

«It – Handbook political instructor of the time, some instructions of what to say, if you are going to preach a crusade against the Muslims in the Middle East” – says the candidate of historical sciences.

According to the researcher, a treatise Humbert is the reader a wide range of topics that you can talk to his flock, and takes into account the overgrown criticism of the Crusades, common at the time. It quite clearly the necessity crusade in terms of the medieval theory of the just war. Text is important not only as a manuscript of the XIII century – it brings to other more serious issues: the relationship between Christianity and Islam, the history of religion in general, the modern political and inter-confessional relations.

Tailors considers that the document may be of interest not only for historians, but also political scientists who study the methods of agitation and propaganda used in the Middle Ages.

Russian translation of the treatise Humbert and reconstructed edition of the Latin text will be released in book form at the end of 2015. The French version is expected in the next year or two.

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