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Venance Fortunat, poète chrétien du VIe siècle, eut, pour ainsi dire, une vie riche de trois existences : né entre 530 et 540, éduqué à Ravenne, il part pour la Gaule vers la fin de l’été ou à l’automne de l’année 565 ; ce fut le début d’un long voyage dans le monde mérovingien qui s’acheva à Poitiers où il finit sa vie comme évêque de la cité vers 600. Fortunat sera même sanctifié. Au centre d’un réseau d’amitiés et de relations avec les puissants de son temps, il a composé une importante œuvre élégiaque. L’étude de ses Poèmes ici présentée s’inscrit dans la problématique globale et bien établie de la « conversion » d’un genre littéraire profane, en l’occurrence l’élégie érotique romaine des âges cicéronien et augustéen. Par l’élégie devenue chrétienne, Fortunat, parcourant la Gaule mérovingienne, fréquentant évêques et rois, nous fait entrer dans une configuration culturelle autre : celle où le poète élégiaque, tout en demeurant dans le registre d’un genre mineur, compare sa parole à celle des évêques dont la mission déclarée est la conversion des cœurs. Rien assurément ne prédispose le poète élégiaque à tenir un rôle spirituel aussi marqué ; cependant le choix même du style élégiaque est celui d’un style ni sublime ni bas, à l’image de l’être humain, qui convient à la représentation du Christ incarné. Ainsi la morale christique peut prendre forme pour dire en distiques les vertus de l’amitié et de l’amour, la gloire des évêques et des rois catholiques. À sa manière, l’humble inspiration élégiaque contribue à la diffusion en Occident de l’universel chrétien. Venance Fortunat n’évolue plus, à l’imitation des élégiaques passés, dans l’équivoque correspondance du réel au fictif, mais fonde modestement sa légitimité auctoriale sur sa foi dont Marie est l’illustration féminine. Ainsi une harmonie apparaît entre l’élévation d’âme et le rythme discontinu de l’hexamètre suivi du pentamètre. Réécrivant le motif ovidien de l’association inédite et difficile entre grandeur…

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern --- Poésie latine médiévale et moderne --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, --- Poets, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Christliche Literatur. --- Poets, Latin (Medieval and modern). --- Venantius (Fortunatus) --- Criticism and interpretation. --- France. --- Venantius (Fortunatus). --- Poésie latine médiévale et moderne --- Religion --- Literature (General) --- Venance Fortunat --- latin --- littérature --- poésie --- christianisme --- femme --- religion

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This book, useful for both scholars and students of Late Antique Gaul, is a survey of 600 plus Latin letters written during the Merovingian era (ca. 500-750) by bishops and other clergy, highly-placed laymen, women, popes, and royalty. Various aspects of the correspondence are discussed, including amicitia, literary circles, gift-giving, letter-bearers, Scripture usage, and women's writing. An appendix supplies English summaries of the letters, many of which have not received translation into any modern language. Primary sources from the Frankish kingdom during the Merovingian era (ca. 500-750) are few and far between. This volume is a survey of more than 600 Latin letters, selected by the author, that were exchanged between persons in Gaul during that time period. Many are almost entirely unknown and have never been translated into any modern language. While most of the letters were authored by clerics and highly-placed laymen, a small but significant number was composed by women, both religious and lay. For elite individuals, letter networks were the social media of their day. Letters were written to maintain the bonds of friendship, to seek or extend patronage and political alliance, to instruct, rebuke, defend, console, and recommend. Many have come down to us in collections; others are strays embedded in other texts or deperdita that come to light only in the replies of others. In seven chapters, the author discusses numerous aspects of the letters and explores how they fit with, and enlarge upon, the better-known sources of the period such as the works of Gregory of Tours, Fredegar, the anonymous History of the Franks (LHF), and various saints' vitae.

Latin letters, Medieval and modern --- Merovingians. --- Correspondance latine médiévale et moderne --- Vie intellectuelle --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Gaul --- Royaume des Francs --- Intellectual life. --- Latin letters, Medieval and modern. --- Europe --- France. --- E-books --- Merovingen --- Frankrijk --- Geschiedenis --- Sidoine Apollinaire (0431?-0487? ; saint) --- Avit (0450-0518? ; saint) --- Venance Fortunat (0530-0601 ; saint) --- Martin (05..-0580? ; saint) --- Grégoire de Tours (0538-0594 ; saint) --- Colomban (054.?-0615 ; saint) --- Boniface (0675?-0754 ; saint) --- Correspondance latine médiévale et moderne

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Miracles --- Self-perception --- Perception de soi --- History of doctrines --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Histoire des doctrines --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Gregory, --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, --- France --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- Self --- Gaul --- Church history. --- -Self --- -Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Individuality --- Mind and body --- Personality --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- -Religious aspects --- -Christianity --- -History of doctrines --- -Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus --- Gregory Saint, Bishop of Tours --- -Gallia --- Gaule --- -Church history --- Personal identity --- Fortunat, Venance, --- Fortunat, Venant︠s︡iĭ, --- Fortunato, Venanzio, --- Fortunatus, --- Venantius Fortunatus, --- Venantius Fortunatus, Honorius Clementianus, --- Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus, --- Venanzio Fortunato, --- Фортунат, Венанций, --- Grégoire, --- Gregor, --- Gregorius, --- Gregorio, --- Grigoriĭ, --- Gregori, --- Tours, Gregory of, --- Gallia --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clemens --- Fortunatus, Venantius --- Fortunat, Venance --- Venance Fortunat --- Venant︠s︡iĭ Fortunat, --- Венанций Фортунат, --- Fortunat, Wenancjusz, --- Wenancjusz Fortunat, --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus --- Miracles - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Self - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, 30-600. --- Gregorius ep. Turonensis --- 6e siècle --- Gregory, - Saint, Bishop of Tours, - 538-594. --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, - ca. 540-ca. 600. --- Gaul - Church history.

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Merovingen in de literatuur --- Merovingians in literature --- Mérovingiens dans la littérature --- Merovingians --- Occasional verse, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Poets, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Mérovingiens --- Poésie de circonstance latine (médiévale et moderne) --- Poètes latins médiévaux et modernes --- Poetry --- History and criticism --- Translations into English --- Biography --- Poésie --- Histoire et critique --- Traductions anglaises --- Biographies --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, --- France --- History --- Histoire --- Merovingians in literature. --- Translations into English. --- History and criticism. --- Biography. --- Poetry. --- 871 FORTUNATUS, VENANTIUS --- -Merovingians in literature --- -Occasional verse, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- -Latin occasional verse, Medieval and modern --- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern --- Latin poets (Medieval and modern) --- Latijnse literatuur--FORTUNATUS, VENANTIUS --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus --- -Translations into English --- -Poetry. --- -Latijnse literatuur--FORTUNATUS, VENANTIUS --- 871 FORTUNATUS, VENANTIUS Latijnse literatuur--FORTUNATUS, VENANTIUS --- Mérovingiens --- Mérovingiens dans la littérature --- Poésie de circonstance latine (médiévale et moderne) --- Poètes latins médiévaux et modernes --- Poésie --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- Latin occasional verse, Medieval and modern --- Fortunat, Venance, --- Fortunat, Venant︠s︡iĭ, --- Fortunato, Venanzio, --- Fortunatus, --- Venantius Fortunatus, --- Venantius Fortunatus, Honorius Clementianus, --- Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus, --- Venanzio Fortunato, --- Фортунат, Венанций, --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Occasional verse [Latin ] (Medieval and modern) --- Poets [Latin ] (Medieval and modern) --- To 987 --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, ca. 540-ca. 600. --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, ca. 540-ca. 600 - Translations into English. --- Occasional verse, Latin (Medieval and modern) - France - Translations into English. --- Occasional verse, Latin (Medieval and modern) - France - History and criticism. --- Poets, Latin (Medieval and modern) - France - Biography. --- France - History - To 987 - Poetry. --- Merovingians - Poetry. --- Venant︠s︡iĭ Fortunat, --- Венанций Фортунат, --- Fortunat, Wenancjusz, --- Wenancjusz Fortunat, --- 프랑스 --- Falanxi --- Fa-lan-hsi --- 法蘭西 --- Frankrijk --- Frant︠s︡ --- Франц --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Франц Улс --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clemens --- Fortunatus, Venantius --- Fortunat, Venance --- Venance Fortunat --- Occasional verse, Latin (Medieval and modern) - Translations into English. --- Occasional verse, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism.