Editing Stephen Langton (section)

==Works==
Langton wrote prolifically. His many sermons and his glosses, commentaries, expositions, and treatises on almost all the [[Books of the Bible|books]] of the [[Old Testament]] are preserved in manuscript<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/20108626 Baldwin, John W. "Master Stephen Langton, Future Archbishop of Canterbury: The Paris Schools and Magna Carta". ''The English Historical Review'', vol. 123, no. 503, 2008, pp. 811–46. JSTOR]</ref> at [[Lambeth Palace]], at [[Oxford University|Oxford]] and [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]], and in France.

According to F. J. E. Raby, "There is little reason to doubt that Stephen Langton&nbsp;... was the author" of the famous sequence ''[[Veni Sancte Spiritus]]''.<ref>''The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse'', Oxford, 1959, p. 496.</ref>

The only other of his works which has been printed, besides a few letters (in ''The Historical Works of [[Gervase of Canterbury]]'', ed. [[William Stubbs|W. Stubbs]], ii. London, 1880, ''[[Rolls Series]],'' no. 71, appendix to preface) is a ''Tractatus de translatione Beati Thomae'' (in [[J. A. Giles]]'s ''Thomas of Canterbury'', Oxford, 1845), which is probably an expansion of a sermon he preached in 1220, on the occasion of the translation of the relics of [[Thomas Becket]]; the ceremony was the most splendid that had ever been seen in England. He also wrote a life of [[Richard I of England|Richard I]], and other historical works and poems are attributed to him.

===Chapters of the Bible===
Classically, scrolls of the books of the [[Bible]] have always been divided by blank spaces at the end (''petuhoth'') or middle (''setumoth'') of the lines. However, Langton is believed<ref name=Moore>Moore, G.F. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/3259119 The Vulgate Chapters and Numbered Verses in the Hebrew Bible], 1893, at [[JSTOR]].</ref> to be the one who divided the Bible into the standard modern arrangement of [[Chapters and verses of the Bible|chapters]]. While Cardinal [[Hugh of St Cher|Hugo de Sancto Caro]] is also known to have come up with a systematic division of the Bible (between 1244 and 1248), it is Langton's arrangement of the chapters that remains in use today.<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07175a.htm Hebrew Bible] article in the ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]''.</ref>