medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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. 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.
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.
Best again,
John Dillon
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