medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Both thoughts occurred to me as well this evening when I reread the Vita
sancti Mauri's list of M.'s companions. --JD
On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, at 10:05 pm, John Wickstrom wrote:
> I misread the Chron. Cass. It was Antonius (not Simplicius) and
> Constantinianus (not Constantinus) who were said to have been
> reinterred at
> Glanfeuil in 1119. According to the Vita S. Mauri both of these
> accompaniedMaurus to Gaul (along with Simplicius and the purported
> author of the Vita,
> Faustus) and had died at Glanfeuil, whereas Simplicius returned
> alive to MC
> along with Faustus. So perhaps we are dealing with similarly named but
> different people. Or perhaps famous names of the early tradition were
> borrowed for a variety of historical purposes by later writers without
> sufficient regard to chronological plausibility or orthographic
> consistency?JBW
>
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