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Helping them to become Christians, that is. One of my first posts on this blog in the early days was about the Domus ...
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Visigothic King Wamba ruled from 672 to 680, when something happened to him. There are different stories about how he...
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Visigothic King Erwig called a council on 9 January 681 the Twelfth Council of Toledo. Part of his reason was to have...
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When the Third Council of Braga was held in 675 (a century after the Second), the Visigothic king at the time tried t...
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There were several religious councils held at Braga, the 11th of which took place as late as 1566. The illustration i...
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A pilgrim from the Hungary/Austria region in Europe became an archbishop in Portugal and wrote prolifically, includin...
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Now that we understand Euhemerism we can look at Ælfric of Eynsham's example of it in his essay De falsis deis ("On f...
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I said yesterday that I was going to talk about the writings of Ælfric of Eynsham, and I will, but I want to explain ...
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The oldest sample in writing of Old Dutch happens to be scrawled in the margin of a manuscript stored in the Bodleian...
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"Hebban olla vogala" is not the name of a manuscript in the Bodleian Library of Oxford. It is part of a single line s...
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Two things may be said about the Book of Glendalough. One is that it resides in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The s...
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Our first foray into the special medieval holdings of the Bodleian Library is Cædmon's Hymn.Bede wrote that Cædmon wa...
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The Bodleian Library in Oxford is actually not from the Middle Ages. It was founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley (154...
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Isaac of Nineveh was a 7th-century Syriac Christian, born c.613 in eastern Arabia (Qatar), an area that spoke Arabic ...
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The Syriac alphabet is a set of 22 consonants; there are no vowels. It was created in the 1st century CE as an offsho...
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After Muhammad's death, the Muslim world expanded its reach quickly. Within a century, its reach extended from modern...
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Thank heavens for people in the past who took the time to write down what they knew—although, to be fair, we have ver...
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In the early days of Muhammad (c.570 - 632 CE), the founder of Islam, not everyone in that part of the world automati...
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Constans II came to the imperial throne as a child, but upon gaining his majority he proved to be capable and even am...
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So Constans II survived the attempt by Valentinus to become emperor in 644, and ruled for another 22 years, accomplis...