RT Article
T1 Veterum vestigia patrum: The Greek Patriarchs in the Manuscript Culture of Early Medieval Europe
JF The Downside review
VO 139
IS 1
SP 6
OP 23
A1 Bruce, Scott G
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1755888686
AB This article draws attention to the availability of Latin translations of Greek patristic literature in western reading communities before the year 800 through a survey of the contents of hundreds of surviving manuscripts from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods. An examination of the presence of the translated works of eastern church fathers in the 8th-century florilegium known as The Book of Sparks (Liber scintillarum) and monastic library catalogs from the early 9th century corroborates the impression left by the manuscript evidence. Taken together, these sources allow us to gauge the popularity of particular eastern authors among Latin readers in early medieval Europe and to weigh the influence and importance of Greek patristics in the western monastic tradition.
K1 Translation
K1 Origen of Alexandria
K1 Merovingian manuscripts
K1 Library catalogs
K1 Liber scintillarum
K1 John Chrysostom
K1 Greek patristics
K1 Eusebius of Caesarea
K1 Defensor of Ligugé
K1 Carolingian manuscripts
K1 Basil the Great
K1 Alcuin of York
K1 Adoptionism
DO 10.1177/0012580621994704