medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Otfried Lieberknecht <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear Christopher,
>...Dante's reference to the course of the sun might suggest a possible
influence of moralizing explanations of "post meridiem" as, for instance, in
Pseudo-Beda, De libro psalmorum, In Ps. XXIX, PL 93,627...
>...In Pseudo-Beda, Commentarii in Pentateuchum (9th cent.?), PL 91,210A, you
find: "Adam quipe in sexta feria formatus est, in quo peccavit, et mortuus
est, traditur" -- yet this might as well be referring to different "sixth
days" of the week and not or not necessarily to one and the same day.
>Similarly, in Cyrill of Alexandria, Fragmentum epistolae ad S. Leonem,
PL 54,605s....Same text in Cummianus Hibernus, De controversia paschali, PL
87,975....
thanks, Otfried.
wasn't my question, but i'm not adverse to learning something every now or
then, as long as it's not too painful.
i'm wondering --from my position of precious, nearly pristine, ignorance--
would Dante have been au courant with the Pseudo-Bede, Cyrill, Cummianus,
etc., *directly,* or would he have relied on intermediary sources, like the
G.O. or the Caetana Aurea?
best from the Danteanly Challenged,
christopher
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