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Jacques de Vitry (James)
lived c. 1160-1240

Jacques de Vitry was born at Vitry-sur-Seine around 1160. He studied at the University of Paris and returned there for his ordination to the priesthood. In 1210, he became a canon regular at the church of Saint-Nicolas d’Oignies and was elected bishop of Ance in 1214. He preached the Albigensian Crusade from 1211 to 1213 and took part in the Fifth Crusade. After returning to Europe in 1227, he became cardinal bishop of Frascati. He died in Rome in 1240. The most important of his works was Historia Hierosolymitana, a history of the Holy Land. He is also known for his sermons and letters to Pope Honorius III. TLM

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OMSB Records by Jacques de Vitry:

• Loud, G.A., ed.; Rau, Iris, trans., A Letter of Jacques de Vitry (Leeds Medieval History Texts in Translation Website, University of Leeds, 2001).
• Armstrong, Regis J.; Hellman, J.A. Wayne, ed.; Short, William J., ed., Francis of Assisi: Early Documents Volume I The Saint (Hyde Park NY: New City Press, 1999).
• , The Life of Marie D'Oignies (Matrologia Latina Website. Toronto: Peregrina Press, 2000).
• Gregg, Joan Young, ed., Devils, Women, and Jews: Reflections of the Other in Medieval Sermon Stories (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997).
• Munro, Dana Carleton, ed., The Mediaeval Student (Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History, Vol. 2, No. 3. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1895).
• Maier, Christoph, T., ed., trans., Crusade Propaganda and Ideology: Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000).
• Petroff, Elizabeth Alvilda, ed., Medieval Women's Visionary Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
• Muessig, Carolyn, ed., The Sermones Feriales et Communes of Jacques de Vitry: A Critical Edition of Sermons 10 and 11 on Animals, Part I (Medieval Sermon Studies. Vol. 47. (1-18); Vol. 48 (45-56). Maney Publishing. Leeds. UK., 2003).
• Blamires, Alcuin, ed; Pratt, Karen ed.; Marx, C.W. ed., Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
• Armstrong, Regis J., ed., trans., Clare of Assisi: Early Documents (New York: Paulist Press, 1988).
• Head, Thomas, ed.; McNamer, Sarah, trans., "The Middle English Version of Jacques de Vitry's Life of St. Marie d'Oignies" in Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology (New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 709-728, 2000).
• Muessig, Carolyn, ed., trans., The Faces of Women in the Sermons of Jacques of Vitry (Toronto: Peregrina Publishing Co., 1999).
• Huygens, R.B.C., ed., "Jacques de Vitry: Lettres" in Serta Medievalia: Textus varii saeculorum X-XIII in unum collecti (Turnhout: Brepols [Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis 171], 20002503).