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Thanks John, for the wonderful info on S Vincenzo al V... sites both actuaI and virtual.
I shall make an effort to go visit the real thing while in Italy next spring! In the meantime I am going to make time to visit those web sites attentively.
And thanks as ever to Phyllis for giving colleagues like John the opportunity to share such things.
What a great list...
TGD
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:20:58 -0600 Phyllis wrote:
>Today (21. November) is the feast day of:
>Hilary of Volturno (d. c. 1045) Hilary served as abbot of St.
>Vincent's monastery at Volturno 1011-1045,
Er, Hilary of San Vincenzo al Volturno; the monastery of St. Vincent on the Volturno. The Volturno is a major river of Molise and Campania; the monastery in question was near its headwaters in Molise's Isernia province. Here are some photographs of the Volturno in this vicinity:
http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-tiscali/aptvolturnia/page11.html
A Lombard foundation and since Carolingian times an imperial abbey, San Vincenzo al Volturno was already in decline in the early 12th century when our chief source of information about Hilary (Ilarius), its richly illustrated cartulary chronicle, the _Chronicon Vulturnense_, was produced. Some of the latter's miniatures are reproduced here:
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/davmonac/sanvin/svstoria.html
An archeological campaign that ran from 1980 to 1997 revealed extensive remains of the abbey as it was in Hilary's day and earlier. The best general introduction to this is Richard Hodges' _Light in the Dark Ages: The Rise and Fall of San Vincenzo al Volturno_ (London: Duckworth, 1997); a fuller bibliography is here:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/iwa/publicationsSanVin.html
And the main page of that project's website is here:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/iwa/sanvincenzo.html
Excavation continues at this active site. The present project's website is here:
http://www.sanvincenzoalvolturno.it/english/indexeng.html
The abbey is now also a tourist attraction. Here's a tourist industry site with good photographs (not to miss the further links at lower right):
http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-tiscali/aptvolturnia/page12.html
And here's another (with interesting reconstructions):
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/davmonac/sanvin/index.html
The theologian Ambrose Autpert was abbot here in 777 and 778 and the _Chronicon Vulturnense_ is well known to art historians of 12th-century central and southern Italy. Yet the abbey itself seems relatively unfamiliar to medievalists in general. Here's a chance to learn a bit more.
Best,
John Dillon
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