Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity : : theology in the writings of an Italian émigré in Merovingian Gaul / / by Benjamin Wheaton.

• Superior document: Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; Volume 29
• VerfasserIn: Wheaton, Benjamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series on the early Middle Ages ; Volume 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 pages)

Usually known as a bon vivant poet or naïve biographer of saints, Venantius Fortunatus, the sixth-century poet and émigré from Italy to Merovingian Gaul, emerges this book as a vigorous and mature preacher of Christian theology.

A wandering “Orpheus among the barbarians,” a lively flatterer of the powerful and an appreciator of good food and pleasant company: the sixth-century poet Venantius Fortunatus is known to us today for being all these things. Yet in the Middle Ages people knew and loved “Fortunatus the priest:” a man of the Church and a teacher of Christian dogma. This book for the first time looks at this other side of Fortunatus’ character through the lens of what he wrote when he was bishop of Poitiers at the end of his life: two sermons and a hymn to the Virgin Mary. Here you will encounter something unexpected: Bishop Fortunatus the stern yet skillful preacher of Augustinian grace and Chalcedonian orthodoxy.

Table of Contents

The Expositio Symboli: Religious and Literary Context -- The Expositio symboli of Rufinus of Aquileia and the Expositio symboli of Venantius Fortunatus -- Background to the Expositio orationis dominicae -- The Expositio orationis dominicae of Venantius Fortunatus and the Semi-Pelagian Dispute -- Venantius Fortunatus and the Three Chapters Controversy -- Vision of A Chalcedonian Christendom: The In laudem sanctae Mariae of Venantius Fortunatus.