medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
--- Lena Wahlgren-Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> Dear listmembers,
>
> Does anyone know anything about the/any cult of St
> Denys in
> England?
I expect you know the interesting passage in Abelard's Historia
Calamitatum, where Abelard got into trouble with his fellow-monks at St
Denys by denying the identity of their patron with Dionysius the
Areopagite:
"It happened that one day in my reading I came across a statement of
Bede, in his Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, which asserted
that Dionysius the Areopagite was bishop of Corinth, not of Athens.
This seemed in direct contradition to their claim that their patron
Denis is to be identified with the famous Areopagite whose history
shows him to have been bishop of Athens. I showed my discovery, by way
of a joke, to some of the brothers who were standing by, as evidence
from Bede which was against us. They were very much annoyed and said
that Bede was a complete liar and they had a more truthful witness in
their own abbot Hilduin, who had spent a long time travelling in Greece
to investigate the matter; he had found out the truth and removed all
shadow of doubt in the history of the saint which he had compiled
himself. Then one of them abruptly demanded my opinion on the
discrepancy between Bede and Hilduin. I replied that the authority of
Bede, whose writings are accepted by the entire Latin Church, carried
more weight with me."
Bill.
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