Latin Life of *Amantius (bishop of Rodez, late 5th c., S00026); written in Gaul at an uncertain date, perhaps before 700. Skeleton entry
Evidence ID
E05662
Type of Evidence
Literary
Life of Amantius, Bishop of Rodez (Vita Amantii episcopi Ruteni, BHL 351-2)
Amantius was bishop of Rodez in the 5th century. His later cult is attested by Gregory of Tours (E00034) and Desiderius of Cahors (E05613). His extant Life is of uncertain date but has been dated by some scholars to before 700.
We have not examined this Life.
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Source
The Life of Amantius was used by Florus of Lyon in his Martyrology, so was in existence by c. 825 (Prévot, 1989, 42), but it is very uncertain how much earlier than that it is. It was dated to the 7th century by Riché 1962, 414, but to the 8th century or later by Krusch (Krusch 1885, xxi), to the 8th or 9th c. by PCBE 4 ('Amantius 3'), and to the 9th century by Duchesne, Fastes II, 40.Bibliography
Edition:Krusch, B., Vita sancti Amantii, in Venanti Honori Clementiani Fortunati presbyteri Italici opera pedestria (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores antiquissimi 4,2; Berlin, 1885), 55-64.
Further reading:
Duchesne, L., Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule, vol. 2 (Paris, 1899).
Prévot, F., "Rodez," in N. Gauthier and J.-Ch. Picard (eds.), Topographie chrétienne des cités de la Gaule des origines au milieu du VIIIe siècle, vol. 6: Provinces ecclésiastique de Bourges (Aquitania Prima) (Paris, 1989), 41-49.
Riché, P., Éducation et culture dans l'Occident barbare: VIe-VIIIe siècles (Paris, 1962).
Record Created By
Matthieu Pignot; David Lambert
Date of Entry
07/06/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00026 | Amantius, bishop of Rodez, late 5th c. | Amantius | Certain |
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