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Giuseppe Cremascoli, « Sul lessico teologico nel Catholicon di Giovanni Balbi », Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi (documents), ID : 10.3406/alma.2019.2583
Recent research conducted on the most well-known Medieval Latin lexicographers – Papias, Osbernus, Hugutio Pisanus – has revealed that they understood their task to be of an essentially grammatical and derivatio nominis nature, almost overlooking detailed analysis of the semantic innovations introduced by theology and Christian practice. The system changed radically with Giovanni Balbi, theologian of the Ordo Praedicatorum, author of the monumental lexicon Catholicon, attentive to the derivatio nominis but also committed to supporting, in some cases, ample treatises bearing on cogitatio fidei or the apparatuses of Christian institutions. This essay addresses certain lemma considered to be particularly significant : tradux, eucaristia, missa, communio, Trinitas. Other words frequently in use in Trinitarian and Christological debates in early Christianity are given special attention in the essay. Transliterated from the Greek with