Mission Statement

In Spring 2010, this new website on the Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais will go live.

On this website, we will present a biography of Vincent, a renewed bibliography concerning his life, works and influence, a list of all the manuscripts and incunabula of his works, and a description of the genesis of his major work, the Speculum Maius. In a next step, we will make available a password protected area, in which several aids for scholars interested in all different aspects of the writings of this thirteenth century Dominican will appear, such as unpublished parts of the Speculum Historiale and Speculum Naturale, and information on the sources of these specula.

Scholars interested in Vincent's oeuvre and its Fortleben have the possibility to subscribe, via this website, to the Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter. We will send the Newsletter by email to all subscribers in PDF-format once a year, in autumn. From volume 35 (2010) on, a hard copy version of the Newsletter will not be issued anymore; only the digital version will be available. Current readers of the hard copy version will receive an e-mail informing them on how to subscribe to the digital version. Subscribers will automatically receive an e-mail announcing the live going of this website.

We invite scholars to submit papers for the Newsletter that will appear in 2010. Please also inform us on any papers, articles, books or reviews on Vincent of Beauvais that you publish or present, in order to keep our files up to date.

Please use the email adress info.vincentiusbelvacensis@gmail.com to forward your subscription and contributions.

Eva Albrecht & Hans Voorbij