Autour de la bibliothèque du pape Agapit

Marrou, Henri-Irénée

doi:10.3406/mefr.1931.7213

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“…156 The latter has sometimes been identified with the area beneath the scala sancta, where an early sixth-century fresco depicted a seated man holding a book roll and reading a codex. The image and accompanying verse inscription have encouraged identifying the figure as Augustine and the space as part of a library, 157 although both conclusions remain arguable. 158 More certainly, Gregory the Great's monastic house complex on the Caelian incorporated the earlier Library of Agapitus, where, it was said, Gregory wrote the books of his Dialogues.…”

Section: Texts and Transmission: Isidore's Spain And The Library At Bmentioning

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Poets and Readers in Seventh-Century Rome: Pope Honorius, Lucretius, and the Doors of St. Peter's

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2020

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This essay offers several reasons for reconsidering seventh-century Rome's reputation as a literary dark age. It provides close readings of several epigrams inscribed in Roman churches during and soon after the papacy of Honorius I (625–38) as evidence for a revived literary scene in the city during these years. It also argues that the intertextual maneuvers deployed by these epigrams suggest, contrary to current opinion, that Lucretius's De rerum natura had Roman readers in the early seventh century. Lucretius's “popularity” in contemporary Visigothic Spain; the likelihood that Honorius's younger contemporary and acquaintance, Jonas of Bobbio, was familiar with Lucretius; and the eventual presence of a (lost) manuscript of the De rerum natura in the library of the Bobbio monastery are enlisted in order to set both early seventh-century Rome and the De rerum natura in wider historical context. In general, this essay encourages the re-evaluation of the place of epigraphic poetry in our histories of late Latin literature and literary culture.

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Poets and Readers in Seventh-Century Rome: Pope Honorius, Lucretius, and the Doors of St. Peter's

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Cesare Baronio and the convent of Gregory the Great

Brummer¹

1974

Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History

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Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

Leyser

2000

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This book examines the formation of the Christian ascetic tradition in the western Roman Empire during the period of the barbarian invasions, c.400–600. In an aggressively competitive political context, one of the most articulate claims to power was made, paradoxically, by men who had renounced ‘the world’, committing themselves to a life of spiritual discipline in the hope of gaining entry to an otherworldly kingdom. Often dismissed as mere fanaticism or open hypocrisy, the language of ascetic authority, the book shows, was both carefully honed and well understood in the late Roman and early medieval Mediterranean. It charts the development of this new moral rhetoric by abbots, teachers, and bishops from the time of Augustine of Hippo to that of St Benedict and Gregory the Great.

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Autour de la bibliothèque du pape Agapit

Cited by 20 publications

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Poets and Readers in Seventh-Century Rome: Pope Honorius, Lucretius, and the Doors of St. Peter's

Poets and Readers in Seventh-Century Rome: Pope Honorius, Lucretius, and the Doors of St. Peter's

Cesare Baronio and the convent of Gregory the Great

Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

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