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That's the "real" Gerland of Besancon, a contemporary of the bishop of
Agrigento. His treatise on the computus is variously dated ca. 1086
and ca. 1090. Faith Wallis is working on an edition of his treatise on
the computus, it says here:
http://www.mcgill.ca/ssom/facultyinfo/wallis/
So perhaps her translation of and commentary on Bede's _De temporibus_
(Liverpool U.P., 1999) has references that will help.
Best,
John Dillon
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From: "Cormack, Margaret Jean" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:41 am
Subject: Re: [M-R] Gerland
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> On a different note, I donīt suppose this is the Gerland
> who devised a dating system that differs from the Dionysian
> one by 7 years? If anyone can provide me with leads on
> that Gerland, I would very much appreciate it.
> Meg
>
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> From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval
> religious culture on behalf of John Dillon
> Sent: fim. 24.2.2005 23:49
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 25. February
>
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 7:34 pm, Phyllis wrote:
>
> > Today (25. February) is the feast day of:
>
> > Gerland (d. c. 1100) Gerland was a native of Besancon. He was
> > related to the Norman rulers of southern Italy/Sicily, and they gave
> > G. an important ecclesiastical role. G. didn't like it and went off
> > to be a hermit. But he was forced later to accept the bishopric of
> > Agrigento, and spent the rest of his life restoring the see.
>
> _Pace_ Phyllis' source here, the evidence for Gerland's having
> been a
> relative of the Hautevilles is late and unreliable. That he came from
> Besancon is only a guess. Geoffrey Malaterra, Roger I's late
> 11th-century biographer, refers to G. merely as "Gerlandum quendam,
> natione Allobrogum" ("a certain Gerland, of the Savoyard [or perh.
> "French"] nation").
>
> Agrigento's cathedral is said to have been dedicated to G. since the
> fourteenth century. Built and rebuilt from the late eleventh
> century to
> the later fourteenth (with rededications in 1315 and 1354) and
> again in
> the later seventeenth century, and heavily redecorated within
> during the
> sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it has little medieval to show
> apart from a couple of windows surviving from the original
> structure and
> its unfinished fifteenth-century belltower. A front view is here:
> http://sicilyweb.com/foto/198/198-02-57-25-9145.jpg
> and a side view of the belltower is here:
> http://fujiso3.hp.infoseek.co.jp/sc5hp/psc533.html
> Detail thereof:
> http://sicilyweb.com/foto/2/2-10-21-34-4027.jpg
>
> Other medieval buildings in Agrigento include:
>
> Santa Maria dei Greci (11th-cent.; said to have been G.'s first
> cathedral; built over a fifth-century BCE temple; thirteenth-century
> portal):
> http://www.hotelcostazzurra.it/uk/santamaria.JPG
> http://www2.esperia.it/images/attrazioni/agrigento_chsmariagreci.jpg
>
> San Biagio (12th-cent.; built over part of the base of a fifth-century
> BCE temple of Demeter):
> http://www.aaa-agrigento.it/foto/chiese/new/ch%20san10.jpg
> http://fujiso3.hp.infoseek.co.jp/sc5hp/psc529.html
> http://www.valleyofthetemples.com/demetra.gif
>
> San Nicola (13th-cent., Cistercian; 16th-cent. buttresses; home of
> Agrigento's Museo Archeologico Nazionale):
> http://sicilyweb.com/foto/2/2-03-17-22-7378.jpg
> http://fujiso3.hp.infoseek.co.jp/sc5hp/psc531.html
> http://sicilyweb.com/foto/2/2-03-18-12-9978.jpg
>
> Santo Spirito (Cistercian convent established in 1299; exterior
> portionsof church and remains of cloister):
> http://www.mediatel.it/agrigento/sspirit1.html
> http://www.mediatel.it/agrigento/sspirit3.html
> http://fujiso3.hp.infoseek.co.jp/sc5hp/psc532.html
> http://www.mediatel.it/agrigento/sspirit2.html
>
http://sicilia.indettaglio.it/eng/comuni/ag/agrigento/images/chiesa.jpg
> TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/43vl8
> http://www.lasvolta.net/images/citta/agrigento05.jpg
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
>
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