This article examines the revival of the de viris illustribus genre in the twelfth century. These catalogues of the most important Christian authors were modelled on a template created in late antiquity by Jerome, but adopted new attitudes to what constitutes distinguished Christian literary activity. They regard the editing, collecting, and re-ordering of texts as equal to the composition of new works, and recognize legal codification as a noteworthy activity. As such, they represent the broadening out of a Latin Christian literary canon. These texts complicate our ideas about the relationship between ‘authority’ and ‘amplification’ in the twelfth-century renaissance.

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切掉圣詹姆斯骆驼般的膝盖：12 世纪文艺复兴时期的 de viris illustribus 传统

本文考察了十二世纪 de viris illustribus 流派的复兴。这些最重要的基督教作家目录以杰罗姆在古代晚期创建的模板为蓝本，但对构成杰出基督教文学活动的内容采取了新的态度。他们将文本的编辑、收集和重新排序视为新作品的组成，并承认法律编纂是一项值得注意的活动。因此，它们代表了拉丁基督教文学经典的扩展​​。这些文本使我们对 12 世纪文艺复兴时期“权威”与“放大”之间关系的看法复杂化了。