TY - BOOK ID - 101736749 TI - Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity : theology in the writings of an Italian émigré in Merovingian Gaul PY - 2022 SN - 9789004521940 9789004521957 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, KW - Gaul KW - Church history. KW - Theology KW - History KW - France KW - Church history KW - Byzantine Studies KW - Medieval History KW - Religion in Antiquity KW - Religious Studies KW - Dark Ages KW - History, Medieval KW - Medieval history KW - Medieval period KW - Middle Ages KW - World history, Medieval KW - World history KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Medievalism KW - Renaissance KW - Byzantine studies KW - Venance Fortunat, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101736749 AB - "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 skilful preacher of Augustinian grace and Chalcedonian orthodoxy" ER -