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Agobard and Amalarius: a Comparison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

Allen Cabaniss
Affiliation:
Professor of History, University of Mississippi, U.S.A.

Extract

The rich diversity of thought and life in the ninth-century church may be illustrated by an inquiry concerning two dignitaries of the empire of Louis the Pious, Agobard of Lyons (769–840) and Amalarius of Metz (c. 780–c. 850). These two clerics, whose lives were virtually contemporaneous but whose careers crossed only once, during the interval 834–838, were almost as different as it is possible for two men to be; so different indeed that any contact they might have with each other would inevitably be sharply antagonistic. The single point at which their lives did meet was in effect an intellectual duel.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

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