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epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 601 · score 0.02
From the royal court to our faithful servant, The matter you have brought to our attention regarding the see of [the vacant diocese] requires a decision, and we have considered it carefully. The procedure for the election of a bishop established by the councils requires the participation of the clergy and people of the …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 633 · score 0.02
Isidore of Seville [bishop, scholar, c.560-636] addresses the Visigothic court regarding the Fourth Council of Toledo [633], which he presided over and which would prove one of the most important church councils in early medieval Iberia. The letter communicates the council's decisions on liturgical uniformity, clerical …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 633 · score 0.02
An epistola from the Fourth Council of Toledo [633] addressed to the Visigothic clergy, communicating the council's... [This letter from the Epistulae Wisigothicae (Letter 24) represents official correspondence of the Visigothic clergy in Spain. The full Latin text requires further translation.]
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 614 · score 0.02
King Sisebut [r.612-621, the most learned of the Visigothic kings and himself a Latin poet] writes to Isidore of Seville [bishop and encyclopedist, c.560-636] addressing the forced conversion of Jews in Visigothic Spain — a policy Sisebut had personally ordered. Sisebut defends the conversions on theological grounds wh …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 589 · score 0.02
A synodal letter from the Third Council of Toledo [589], the landmark assembly at which the Visigothic king Reccared [r.586-601] formally renounced Arianism and led his people into Catholic Christianity, ending decades of religious division in the kingdom. The letter announces and explains the conversion to the broader …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 604 · score 0.02
To our lord the king and to our brothers in the faith, The election of the new bishop for the see of [the vacant diocese] has been completed according to the canonical procedure, and we write to report the outcome and to seek the royal confirmation that the law requires. The clergy and people of the diocese assembled a …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 592 · score 0.01
To the most blessed Pope Gregory, my dear friend and father in Christ, from Leander, bishop of Seville, The Moralia has arrived and I have read — I should say I have begun to read — it with the wonder and gratitude you might imagine. This is a work of the first order: the kind of commentary on scripture that illuminate …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 608 · score 0.01
To my brothers in the faith and service of Christ, I write this final letter — final in this collection, though God willing not in my life — as a kind of accounting of where we stand and where we are going. The conversion of the Visigothic kingdom to Catholic Christianity was the great event of our generation, and it w …
epistulae_wisigothicae · c. 591 · score 0.01
Gregory to his most holy brother and fellow bishop Leander, greetings. My dear friend — for after the years of our friendship in Constantinople I cannot address you otherwise — the Moralia in Job [Gregory's massive allegorical commentary on the book of Job, written partly at Leander's request] is finished, or at least …