Monks travelers in the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. The course of Fulgentius of Ruspe: contacts, exchanges and influences
Fulgentius, monk, bishop and “forced traveller” was born about the year 468 at Telepte (modern-day Medinet-el-Kedima), Tunisia, into a senatorial family. This reputation helped him to acquire a post as a procurator or tax recollector of Byzacena. He quicky grew tired of the material life. This, toge...
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Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/AcHAM/article/view/3624 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=medieval&d=3624_oai |
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| Sumario: | Fulgentius, monk, bishop and “forced traveller” was born about the year 468 at Telepte (modern-day Medinet-el-Kedima), Tunisia, into a senatorial family. This reputation helped him to acquire a post as a procurator or tax recollector of Byzacena. He quicky grew tired of the material life. This, together with hiis sudies of religion, particularly a sermon of Augustine of Hippo on Psalm XXXVI, determined him to become a monk. In 508 was persuaded to take the post of bishop of the maritime city of Ruspe, but was soon banished to Sardinia with others bishops who did not hold the Arian position. In 515, he returned to Carthage, having been summoned there by Thrasamund for a public debate with their Arian opponents, but then renewed complaints from the local Arian clergy caused him to banish Fulgentius back to Sardinia in 520 and he founded un monastery with scriptorium at Cagliari (Carales) This scriptorium will become an important center of production, transcription and dissemination of religious texts in the Mediterranean space of late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. |
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