The "Conflictus uitiorum et uirtutum" attributed to Stephen Langton. Study and edition

The article takes into account a series of texts dealing with vices and virtues and linked with the name of Stephen Langton. After trying to clear up the relationship among these different texts, the paper concentrated on a text rubricated “Conflictus uiciorum et uirtutum” and transmitted only in MS Laon, BM, 133. The sctructure, the contents, the sources, and the possible utilization of the text are discussed. The “Conflictus” shows great similarities with pastoral works of Peter the Chanter and seems to be among the sources of Nicholas of Tournai’s “Compilatio” transmitted in MS Douai, BM, 434 (being it very likely that Nicholas of Tournai was a pupil of Langton). Similar chapters from the “Conflictus” and the “Compilatio” are tabulated in order to show similarities, and also in order to show that the “Compilatio” can be an ait to better undertanding and editing the “Conflictus”. FInally, the author argues in favour of the attribution of the Conflictus to Stephen Langton (who is indeed indicated in the rublic as author), and brings some arguments in favour of a datation at an early stage in Langton’s carrier (around 1180). After this analysis the Conflictus is integrally edited on the basis of MSS Laon 133 and Oxford, Bodl. L., Laud Misc. 544 (containing only the treatement of the vices, and not that of the virtues).