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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture On Saturday, February 4, 2006, at 9:28 am, Phyllis wrote: > Rabanus Maurus (d. 856) Rabanus was trained at Fulda, became one > of > the great scholars of the Carolingian renaissance, and in 822 was > made abbot. RM resigned in c. 840 and lived in retirement, but in > 847 he was made archbishop of Mainz. He proved to be an unpopular > rigorist. Starting yesterday, the Diocese of Mainz has been celebrating the 1150th anniversary of its release from the rule of this unpopular rigorist. Though, oddly, it doesn't seem to be putting it this way in any of its promotional material. See: http://tinyurl.com/b4ese http://tinyurl.com/dtksd including this brief biography of R.: http://tinyurl.com/8fx4c The celebration includes a major exhibition in the diocesan museum, whose announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/de4au offers among its several illustrations (after the price list) a detail of a thirteenth-century sculptural portrait of R. as archbishop. The illustration just above that one is of a page from the Vatican Library's copy of R.'s _De laudibus sanctae crucis_. That codex (Vat. lat. 124) is a focal point of the exhibition. A better view of the same page is here: http://tinyurl.com/bkt65 and a selection of views of details from the _De laudibus sanctae crucis_ is here: http://tinyurl.com/cg4w7 Best, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html