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Dear Carolin,
Thanks for this. After looking at the announcements from Bistum Mainz
earlier today I of course went immediately on the Web to Bistum Fulda in
the hope of adding something visual to underscore that it was at Fulda
that Rabanus accomplished those great works for which he is still
remembered. Unfortunately, the parallel announcement there of local
events for the Rabanus-Maurus-Jahr
http://tinyurl.com/chu93
didn't lead to anything I could use.
Which was a real pity. Your cathedral, which because it is baroque is
off-topic for this list, is a wonderful building of which I have several
pleasant memories. I'm sure you had a marvelous celebration there today.
Best again,
John Dillon
----- Original Message -----
On Saturday, February 4, 2006, at 7:35 pm, Carolin Esser wrote:
> I am just coming from our own celebration of this great scholar,
> who lead
> Fulda into a position as one of the main learning centres of its
> time and
> wrote and painted such beautiful works as his collection of figurative
> poems called the De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis, not to mention his
> encyclopedia, for which the Latin text can be found at
> http://www.mun.ca/rabanus/.
>
> But again, unfortunately the one doesn't rule out the other. We,
> however,had a lovely time celebrating him.
>
> Happy Rabanus Maurus day to everyone.
>
> Carolin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
> culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John
> DillonSent: 04 February 2006 23:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 4. February
>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> On Saturday, February 4, 2006, at 9:28 am, Phyllis wrote:
>
> > Rabanus Maurus (d. 856) Rabanus was trained at Fulda, became one
> > of
> > the great scholars of the Carolingian renaissance, and in 822 was
> > made abbot. RM resigned in c. 840 and lived in retirement, but
> in
> > 847 he was made archbishop of Mainz. He proved to be an
> unpopular
> > rigorist.
>
> Starting yesterday, the Diocese of Mainz has been celebrating the
> 1150thanniversary of its release from the rule of this unpopular
> rigorist.
> Though, oddly, it doesn't seem to be putting it this way in any of its
> promotional material. See:
> http://tinyurl.com/b4ese
> http://tinyurl.com/dtksd
> including this brief biography of R.:
> http://tinyurl.com/8fx4c
>
> The celebration includes a major exhibition in the diocesan museum,
> whose announcement here:
> http://tinyurl.com/de4au
> offers among its several illustrations (after the price list) a detail
> of a thirteenth-century sculptural portrait of R. as archbishop.
> The illustration just above that one is of a page from the Vatican
> Library's copy of R.'s _De laudibus sanctae crucis_. That codex (Vat.
> lat. 124) is a focal point of the exhibition. A better view of the
> samepage is here:
> http://tinyurl.com/bkt65
> and a selection of views of details from the _De laudibus sanctae
> crucis_ is here:
> http://tinyurl.com/cg4w7
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
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