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> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 17:49:32 -0500 (CDT) > From: "Stephen J. Harris" <[log in to unmask]> > To: Medieval Religion <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Q: Six Ages of the World > Reply-to: [log in to unmask] Dear Stephen Harris, Rodulfus Glaber uses four ages and seven ages and suggests that we are in the sixth age. See my edition : J.France, `Rodulfus Glaber Opera, Oxford Medieval texts, 1989 pp. 8-9 and 44-47 with special reference to p.44 n.1 where there is reference to some bibliography. John France, University of Wales Swansea > Is someone familiar with any recent work on historiography and the > Six ages of the World? A number of library searches have turned up a > rather dated (and unusable) work by Friedrich Schelling, and brief > mentions in larger compilations. (I am working on the relation of the > Genesis story to Bede's description of the adventus Saxonicum.) Any help > would be greatly appreciated. > Also, if it isn't too much, I have come across mention of > "Smith, who printed the whole of the six ages" of Bede in Stevenson's > _The Church Historians of England_ vol. 1 (1853). Does anyone know > offhand if this is A.H. Smith of _Corpus vasorum antiquorumE_? > Any word at all would be a great relief to my tired eyes; to paraphrase > an anonymous monk, the pupils work, but the whole body aches (not a bad > epigram for a teacher, eh?) > > Merci en avance, > Stephen J Harris > Loyola University Chicago > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%