Jonas d’Orléans: Instruction des laïcs. Tome I: Livres I–II, 16. Tome II: Livres II, 17–III. Introduction, text, translation, and notes by Odile Dubreucq
Jonas, bishop of Orléans from 818 to around 842, moved in high circles. His De institutione laicali (the title is uncertain: vol. 1, pp. 43–4) was at least for a time dedicated to the local count, Matfrid; it played some part in shaping the Acts of the Council of Paris in 829. As Dubreucq’s interest...
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 323-325 |
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| Summary: | Jonas, bishop of Orléans from 818 to around 842, moved in high circles. His De institutione laicali (the title is uncertain: vol. 1, pp. 43–4) was at least for a time dedicated to the local count, Matfrid; it played some part in shaping the Acts of the Council of Paris in 829. As Dubreucq’s interesting introduction explains, Jonas had to wheel and deal in the troubled times of Louis the Pious; and he also wrote a Primer for Kings (SC 407)., Little of this background shows in the work under review (Dubreucq signals at vol. 2, p. 42, n. 1 the only allusion to a fact). It comes as a surprise when the author himself appears (Book ii. 3, 11–12: ‘what I say has often been brought up against me’), or a common touch (i. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu029 |