The publication of this edition and systematic study marks a significant event in this long term project by Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson to edit, contextualize, and document the transmission history of the Flowers of Heavenly Teaching by the 14th century Benedictine monk John of Morigny.
Until recently this work was known only through a chronicle report of its burning at Paris in 1323 on the grounds that it revived a condemned ritual called the Ars notoria. However, as Fanger and Watson have discovered, it survives in three versions in more than twenty copies from across Europe. Beyond the edited text, the volume includes extensive contextualizing introductions on John’s work and its reception by Fanger and Watson, apparatus with variants and explanatory notes, and eight color plates.
