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Thomas of Hales, also known as Thomas de Hales, was a thirteenth-century English Franciscan friar and ecclesiastical writer. He is believed to come from Hales, Gloucestershire. Thomas of Hales was one of very few Franciscan lyricists of the mid to late thirteenth century. A few works of his survive. One, in Latin, is a life of the Virgin. This was his most popular work. A second work is a sermon written in Latin with short prayers written in French. The third work, the ''Love Rune' or ''A Luve Ron''—or love song, is written in English and was composed between 1234 and 1272. "The jewel-like lyric presented here is to be read in the spirit of a riddle or conundrum, one that imparts a mysterious, holy wisdom to be lived and learned by heart." 〔Denis Renevey, '1215–1349: texts', in Samuel Fanous and Vincent Gillespie, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism, (Cambridge, 2011), p101.〕 Thomas of Hales also wrote a ''De vita seu genealogia Beatae Virginis Mariae'', which survives in a thirteenth-century copy once in the library of the abbey of St Victor (now University of Basel Library, MS B.VIII. 1., fols. 47vb–57vb), and a number of sermons (Oxford, St John's College, MS 190). Recent evidence has shown that he had contact with Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III.〔Margaret Howell, ''Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England', (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), pp92–4.〕 ==References== *() *() 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas of Hales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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