medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> [p. 713, #3000]
> Iuvenes quoque et pueros quos...sapidos invenit, per diversa scolarum
> studia cirucumquaque dispertivit; quorum certe postea servimine variam
> ac multiplicem suae ecclesiae utilitatem **in lectione scriptura et
> pictura** ac plurali honestiori clericalis officii disciplina
> conquisivit.
>
>
> i take this to mean that the saintly bishop taught the young
> (soon-to-be) clerics under his care (perhaps even including the author
> of the Vita) to "read text [/writings, or perhaps, Scripture] and
> pictures [/images]..."
Christopher,
Off the top of my head, this is something one associates more with Hugh of St Victor and the
other Victorines of the 12th century. It seems a bit perplexing to come across such an idea
so much earlier than that. At that date, it is more usual to find references to images as the
"books of the illiterate" in relation to Pope Gregory the Great's pronouncements, but that is
clearly not what is involved here.
Cheers,
Jim
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