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Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity: Theology in the Writings of an Italian Émigré in Merovingian Gaul

Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity: Theology in the Writings of an Italian Émigré in Merovingian Gaul

Wheaton, Benjamin

Hardcover

Series: Brill's the Early Middle Ages, Book 29

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 9004521941
ISBN13: 9789004521940
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 15 2022
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A wandering Orpheus among the barbarians, a lively flatterer of the powerful and an appreciator of good food and pleasant company: the sixth-century poet Venantius Fortunatus is known to us today for being all these things. Yet in the Middle Ages people knew and loved Fortunatus the priest: a man of the Church and a teacher of Christian dogma.

This book for the first time looks at this other side of Fortunatus' character through the lens of what he wrote when he was bishop of Poitiers at the end of his life: two sermons and a hymn to the Virgin Mary. Here you will encounter something unexpected: Bishop Fortunatus the stern yet skillful preacher of Augustinian grace and Chalcedonian orthodoxy.

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