# Jean Beleth

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{{Short description|French liturgist and theologian (fl. 1135–1182)}}
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'''Jean Beleth''' ({{langx|la|Joannes Belethus}}; {{fl.|1135}}–1182) was a twelfth-century French liturgist and theologian. He is thought to have been rector in a Paris theological college.<ref>''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''</ref> That he was possibly of English origin was a hypothesis discussed by [John Pits](/source/John_Pits), and supported by [Thomas Tanner](/source/Thomas_Tanner_(bishop)); but is no longer taken seriously.<ref>''[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)'', article by Henry Summerson.</ref>

==Life==

Beleth is recorded at [Tiron](/source/Tironensian_Order) in 1135, studying at [Chartres](/source/Chartres) around that time, probably teaching theology in [Paris](/source/Paris), and recorded in 1182 at [Amiens](/source/Amiens).

==Works==

His ''Summa de Ecclesiasticis Officiis'' is a manual and now a source for the Christian [liturgy](/source/liturgy) of his time; it was later printed (''Rationale divinorum officiorum''), and has been dated to 1162.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.abbaye-saint-benoit.ch/gueranger/institutions/volume01/volume0111.htm |title=I – Chapitre Xi<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2008-02-25 |archive-date=2008-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612035313/http://www.abbaye-saint-benoit.ch/gueranger/institutions/volume01/volume0111.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Jean Belet de Vigny==
The 19th-century editions of the ''[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica)'' claimed that '''Jean Belet de Vigny''' (fl. 14th century) edited many important works including the edition and translation into [French](/source/French_language) of the  [hagiography](/source/hagiography) known as the ''Legenda Sanctorum'' ''([Golden Legend](/source/Golden_Legend))''. Considering that one of the original authors of the hagiography most frequently named is one "Johannes Beleth", it is more likely that the 14th-century first French edition was a translation from a version of the Golden Legend written by Beleth.

==References==
===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
* {{citation |editor-first=Herbert |editor-last=Douteil |date=1976 |title=Johannis Beleth Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis }}. {{in lang|la}}
* {{citation |first=Pierce |last=Butler |title=Legenda Aurea—Légende Dorée—Golden Legend: A Study of Caxton's Golden Legend |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |date=1899 }}.
* {{citation |first=Henry |last=Summerson |contribution=Jean Beleth |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004 }}.

==External links==
*{{BBKL|j/Johannes_bel|band=3|autor= Barbara Hartmann|spalten=284-285}}

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