Conrad of Hirsau’s Trees of Vices and Virtues
From De fructu carnis et spiritus to the Speculum virginum
Series: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe; 27;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 10 December 2025
- ISBN 9789004741430
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages504 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 694
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Short description:
Provides an edition and translation of the Trees of Vices and Virtues by Conrad of Hirsau (c.1070 – c.1150), as found in his De fructu carnis et spiritus and the later Speculum virginum, revealing its background and development.
MoreLong description:
Conrad of Hirsau (c.1070 – c.1150) created the famous Trees of Vices and Virtues in De fructu carnis et spiritus, which he prepared before 1133 for illiterate lay brothers. This investigation provides an edition and translation of that work and defines its influential images. It also discovers the convoluted process through which Conrad developed that work into the Speculum virginum c.1140 – 1150 for religious women. This study reveals that Conrad composed that work for his two young women relatives who had entered the Andernach convent, that the autograph manuscript is British Library Arundel 44, and that Conrad himself rendered its numerous innovative pictures.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
Introduction
1 Issues in the Scholarly Literature
2 Discoveries
3 The Pivotal Role of Conrad of Hirsau&&&x2019;s Trees of Vices and Virtues
4 Conclusion
1 Conrad of Hirsau
1 The Evidence of Trithemius
2 Primary Sources
3 Other Secondary Sources
4 Resolution
5 Related Works
6 Evaluation of Additional Information
7 Hirsau and Conrad
8 Conclusion
2 For Any Ignorant and New Lay Brother: De fructu carnis et spiritus
1 The First Edition
2 The Second Edition
3 The Third Edition
4 Exegesis
5 Authorial Theory
6 The Context of De fructu carnis et spiritus
7 Conclusion
3 For Matricularius R.: Dialogus-De fructu-Homo-Allocutio-De inquisitione
1 The First Edition
2 The Second Edition
3 Exegesis
4 Authorial Theory
5 The Context of Dialogus-De fructu-Homo-Allocutio-De inquisitione
6 Conclusion
4 For the Holy Virgins N. and N.: The Speculum virginum
1 The First Edition
2 The Author and the Recipients
3 The Second Edition
4 Exegesis
5 Authorial Theory
6 Conrad&&&x2019;s Comments on the Use of the Text and Images
7 The Context of the Speculum virginum
8 The Relationship between De fructu carnis et spiritus and the Speculum virginum
9 Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Chronology of Conrad of Hirsau&&&x2019;s Development of the Autograph Manuscript of the Speculum virginum
1 First Phase
2 Second Phase
3 Third Phase
4 Fourth Phase
5 Fifth Phase
6 Conclusion
Appendix B: The Characteristics of the Definitions of the Vices and Virtues that Are Missing from Conrad of Hirsau&&&x2019;s Autograph Manuscript of the Speculum virginum
Preface to the Edition of De fructu carnis et spiritus
1 The Manuscripts
2 Special Characteristics of De fructu carnis et spiritus
3 Comparison to the Patrologia latina Edition
4 Conclusion
Edition and Translation
Diagrams
Sigla
Catalogue of Manuscripts
1 De fructu carnis et spiritus
2 Dialogus-De fructu-Homo-Allocutio-De inquisitione
3 Speculum virginum
Table of the Works of Conrad of Hirsau
Bibliography
Index
