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From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> On Monday, April 27, 2009, at 7:54 am, christopher crockett wrote:
>> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
>>> 1) Anacletus, pope (d. ca. 91).... Both this form of his name and the
(pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology's 'Aninclitus' are latinizations of Greek
'Anenkletos' ('Blameless')
>> i did not realize that this is what the name meant.
> Well, it's what _anenkletos_ means. The Vulgate translates it (1 Cor 1:8;
Tit 1:6) as _sine crimine_.
>> may i assume that the 12th c. "antipope" Anacletus II (Pietro Pierleoni),
canonically elected shortly after the (later recognized) "pope" Innocent II,
chose his name deliberately, as some kind of Greekizing trump of his
Frangipani rival's "Innocent"?
> It's possible.
it's also possible that it was just a "co-ncidence," i suppose....
coincidences happen, in History.
like, it was just a coincidence that Boniface VIII's bull Ausculta Fili to
Philip the Fair echoes the opening of the Benedictine Rule.
>Although it's unlikely that cardinal Pierleoni read the Bible in Greek, the
(pseudo-)HM's form 'Aninclitus' might have led by this time to an
understanding in Rome that that's what pope St. Anacletus' name meant in its
original form. I would be happier with that conjecture if one could find
other examples of that pope's being called 'Aninclitus' or 'Anencletus' in a
widely read Latin text, e.g. Rufinus' translation of Eusebius.
o.k., you look there and i'll have a look in
Mary Stroll, The Jewish pope: ideology and politics in the papal schism of
1130.
Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1987.
(Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 8)
see if she has anything to say about the question.
> Because the early pope's name in Latin, when not simply 'Cletus', ordinarily
was 'Anacletus', I'd look rather for a Greek etymology of that form current
(or at least available) in the earlier twelfth century. On the reasonable
assumptions that it was known that 'cletus' = 'called' and that 'Anacletus'
would be analyzed as 'ana' + 'cletus', two pertinent possibilities from
different meanings of 'ana' are 'called upwards' and 'called against'.
Whether either of these is actually attested then would require some digging.
yes.
and sometimes a cigar is just an (innocent) cigar.
c
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