Letters and Selected Prose by Avitus of Vienne

By Avitus of Vienne

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne from c.494 to c.518, is understood for his poetic works, yet his Latin prose sort has resulted in a few forget of his letters. this primary entire translation of the letters into English supplies entry to an incredible resource for the background of the Burgundian state within the early 6th century.

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Dolbeau, ‘La Vie en prose de Saint Marcel, évêque de Die’, Francia 11 (1983), p. 124. See also Kampers, ‘Caretena – Königin und Asketin’. 4 Ed. 2, p. 185. 5 Sidonius, Ep. 3. 6 Avitus, Hom. 26. 7 Avitus, Ep. 7 and Hom. 26. 8 I. N. Wood, ‘Ethnicity and the Ethnogenesis of the Burgundians’, in H. Wolfram and W. Pohl, eds, Typen der Ethnogenese unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bayern (Vienna, 1990), p. 60 – though this needs modification in the light of Avitus, Hom. 26. 9 Sidonius, Ep. 3. 10 Greg.

Peiper, p. xxx, n. 46. Dubois and Renaud, Le martyrologe d’Adon, p. 80. Agobard, Liber adversus Felicem Urgellitanum, 39 (PL 104). 13 4/26/02, 11:10 AM 14 AVITUS OF VIENNE are alternative sources which at least point in the same direction. With regard to the history of the Burgundian kingdom itself, his evidence is unique. He does not, admittedly, provide us with a narrative, which must be found in various chronicle sources – and which is, in any case, fragmentary. Nor does he shed much light on matters of secular legislation within the Burgundian kingdom, for which one must turn to the law codes.

3 Vita Aviti 6. 4 On this see R. Markus, ‘The Legacy of Pelagius: Orthodoxy, Heresy and Conciliation’, in The Making of Orthodoxy, ed. R. D. Williams (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 214–34. 5 E. L. Fortin, Christianisme et culture philosophique au cinquième siècle (Paris, 1959) and C. F. Brittain, ‘No Place for a Platonist Soul in Fifth-Century Provence? The Case of Mamertus Claudianus’, in D. R. Shanzer and R. W. Mathisen, eds, Culture and Society in Late Antique Gaul: Revisiting the Sources (Ashgate, 2001), pp.

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