medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> Both the (old) _Catholic Encyclopedia_ and the Bautz
_Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon_ (BBKL) consider
Fulbert's nationality a matter of uncertainty. See their entries for F. at:
> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06312a.htm
> and
> http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/f/fulbert_v_c.shtml
> So also the Fulbert Millennium Commemoration site which Denis Hüe has
kindly called to our attention. See:
> http://www.fulbert-chartres.org/en/page.php?id_rubrique=5
> Perhaps Phyllis' source is privy to fresh evidence or argumentation
permitting it to assert without qualification that F. was an Italian.
Does anyone know what this might be?
for some reason, this issue comes up most every year, at just about this
time.
just a coincidence, i suppose.
let's see if we can drive a stake through its heart and bury it under a
crossroads.
we can dispense with whatever the C.E. has to say without comment.
likewise, the Fulbert Millennium Commemoration site, which naively tells us
that "At this period bishops were appointed by the clergy and the decision had
to be ratified by the temporal power under whose jurisdiction the bishopric
lay".
Bautz is as good as his sources, which he doesn't bother to specifically cite,
so we don't know which might have suggested "vermutlich in Aquitanien".
Pfister (1885) is unknown to me.
l'Abbé Clerval's _Ecoles de Chartres_ (1895) is a reasonably amazing piece of
work, "Comprehensive", but to a Fault --it contains references to an
extraordinary number of sources, many of them quite obscure, but it must be
used with considerable caution, esp. when the attribution of virtually every
literate fellow in Europe "du Ve au XVIe siècle" to some Chartrain connection
is concerned.
otOh, Frederick Behrends' edition of Fulbert's letters (The letters and poems
of Fulbert of Chartres, edited and translated by Frederick Behrends. OUP,
1976) --which, amazingly enough, is *not* in Bautz's bibliography-- is a fine
piece of scholarship and has a nice, lengthy introduction which discusses,
among many other things, this question of Fulbert's _patrie_ (pp. xvi ff.).
in a very circumspect fashion he summarises the evidence, concluding that
"There is no sound evidence on which to establish the date and place of his
birth....Several attempts have been made to determine Fulbert's birthplace,
but none has been altogether successful, though a strong case has been made
for Picardy....In any event, all the known details of his life point toward
northern France."
his argument is too detailed to do justice to it here, but looks pretty good
to me, and i've put it up on my Chartres site here:
http://ariadne.org/cc/bishops/fulbert/behrendsfulbert/behrends-intro-iii-xxi.html
comments from the Laerned on the list would be welcome.
c
p.s., many thanks to those who responded to my "cesores lapidum" querry --i've
been working on it and hope to have a comment on the question shortly.
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