> 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
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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
>
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