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Caesarius of Heisterbach

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CAESARIUS OF HEISTERBACH (c. 117 o—c. German preacher, was born at Cologne, joined the Cistercians and became prior of the Heisterbach house in 1228. Of his best known work, Dialogue of Visions and Miracles, a series of as cetical romances, the latest edition is that by J. Strange (Cologne, 1851). Of his remaining works the Eight Books of Miracles was edited by Meister (Rome, 19oi ), the more historical Life of St. Engelbert (d. 1225) by Gelenius (1633), the biographical list of archbishops of Cologne between 94-1238 by Cardauns in Mon. Germ. Hist. Script. xxiv., his sermons in 1615, and his "Life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary" by Huyskens in Annalen des His torischen Vereins, etc. (Cologne, 1908).

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Kaufmann, Caesarius von Heisterbach (Cologne, 1862) ; Schon bach, "Studien fur Erzahlungslit. des Mittelalters" in Sitz. der k. Akad. der Wissenschaften, No. 144 (Vienna, 1902) ; and E. Beitz, C. v. Heisterbach and die bildende Kunst (Augsburg, 1926) .

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