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Marijim,
Your author is indeed Defensor of Ligugé. He is by no means obscure to
Carolingianists. However, the only biographical information known about him
comes from the preface to his work which he dedicated to his teacher
Ursinus. Defensor composed his work probably in the seventh century - he
drew upon the works of Isidore of Seville (d. 636) - although the oldest
surviving manuscript of his work dates to c.750.
See Henri Rochais, 'Le "Liber scintillarum" attribué à Defensor de Ligugé',
Revue Bénédictine, 58 (1948), pp. 77-83.
I would advise using the edition by Rochais in the series CCSL (no. 117)
rather than Migne.
Regards,
James McCune.
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
many (most?) of the editions in Migne have some sort of introduction to
their authors, taken from the earlier eds. which he is reprinting. (is it
true that Migne himself did *no* original eds.?)
some of those intros are quite good (the Maurist ones, esp.).
this guy is pretty obscure (i.e., *i've* never heard of him), so perhaps
there is no prefatory material for his work.
c
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Subject: Re: [M-R] who is Defensor Locociagensis?
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
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> I found a few references through Google that give his name as
> Defensor,
monachus Locociagensis. So I think he was a Benedictine monk of Liguge near
Poitiers.
>
> Andrew E. Larsen
>
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Marijim Thoene <[log in to unmask]>
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> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> > culture
Dear Scholars,
> > Does anyone know the identity of Defensor Locociagensis the author
> > of
Scintillae in the PL??? Many thanks for any information!
> > Marijim Thoene
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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