medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:19:32 -0500
John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>culture
>
>On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:20:18 -0700
> Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>Today (22. October) is the feast day of:
>
>>Bertharius of Montecassino (d. 884) Bertharius was abbot of
>>Montecassino
>>and a noted author and poet. He was killed in his own monastic
>>church by
>>raiding Saracens.
>
>The year of this raid (and thus of abbot Berthar's death), given in
>the old _Catholic Encyclopedia_ and other early 20th-century
>standards as 884, is now understood to have been 883. The monastic
>church in question was not that of the abbey of Montecassino proper,
>destroyed by the same raiders ten days earlier, but rather that of
>the Holy Savior at the foot of the mountain. The actual
>administrative center at this time for the abbey and its extensive
>holdings, it was surrounded by a town founded by Berthar and named by
>him Eulogimenopolis (Greek for "city of Benedict"). A brief account
>may be found in G[raham] A. Loud, _Montecassino and Benevento in the
>Middle Ages_ (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), art. I, pp. 2-6; for a
>fuller treatment of the attack itself (resulting in the second of the
>four destructions of the abbey), see Armand O. Citarella and Henry M.
>Willard, _The Ninth-century Treasure of Monte Cassino in the Context
>of Political and Economic Developments in South Ita!
>ly_ (Montecassino: Pubblicazioni cassinesi, 1983), pp. 119-21. Best,
>John Dillon
>
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