| Titre : |
Caesarius of Arles : Life, Testament, Letters |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
saint , 468/542 Caesarius d'Arles, Auteur ; William E. Klingshirn, Traducteur |
| Editeur : |
Liverpool University Press |
| Année de publication : |
2008 |
| Collection : |
Translated Texts for Historians num. 19 |
| Importance : |
155 p |
| Format : |
20,5 cm |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Résumé : |
Caesarius was born in 469/70 and served as Bishop of Arles from 502 until his death in 542. Originally trained as a monk at Lérins, he devoted himself as Bishop to an ambitious programme of church reform and Christianization inspired by strict monastic standards of piety. Best known as a preacher, with a corpus of over 250 sermons, Caesarius also founded a monastery whose rule he composed and presided over several important church councils whose canons still survive. The documents included in this volume - most never before translated into English - vividly illustrate Caesarius\'s career and the social and religious history of Provence at a time of far-reaching political change, during which the region was ruled by a series of Visigothic, Burgundian, Ostrogothic and, ultimately, Frankish kings. The \'Life of Caesarius\', written shortly after his death by five clerics of his acquaintance, provides a first-hand record of the Bishop\'s |
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