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The Vita Wilfrithi inspired a 10th-century Latin poem entitled Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi, written by Frithegod to commemorate Oda's acquisition of Wilfrid's relics for Canterbury Cathedral around 950. The historian Michael Lapidge has called the Breviloquium "one of the most difficult Latin poems written in pre-conquest England". [22]
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c. 530 – c. 600/609 AD; French: Venance Fortunat), known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus (/ v ə ˈ n æ n ʃ ə s ˌ f ɔːr tj ə ˈ n eɪ t ə s /, Latin: [weːˈnantɪ.ʊs fɔrtuːˈnaːtʊs]), was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a bishop of the Early Church who has been venerated since the Middle Ages.
Gavin Douglas (c. 1474 – September 1522) was a Scottish bishop, makar and translator. Although he had an important political career, he is chiefly remembered for his poetry. Although he had an important political career, he is chiefly remembered for his poetry.
The literary fame of Avitus rests on his many surviving letters (his recent editors make them ninety-six in all) [13] and on a long poem, Poematum de Mosaicae historiae gestis (also known as De spiritualis historiae gestis), in classical hexameters, in five books, dealing with the Biblical themes of original sin, expulsion from Paradise, the Deluge, and the Crossing of the Red Sea.
Bishop wrote seventeen drafts of the poem, [6] [self-published source] with titles including "How to Lose Things," "The Gift of Losing Things," and "The Art of Losing Things". [7] By the fifteenth draft, Bishop had chosen "One Art" as her title. [8] The poem was written over the course of two weeks, an unusually short time for Bishop. [7]
Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, better known as Sidonius Apollinaris (5 November, [1] c. 430 – 481/490 AD), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop.Born into the Gallo-Roman aristocracy, he was son-in-law to Emperor Avitus and was appointed Urban prefect of Rome by Emperor Anthemius in 468.
Meanwhile, throughout the city of Amasea, although entry into the temples and holy places had been forbidden by the decree of Theodosius I (391), the festival of gift-giving when "all is noise and tumult" in "a rejoicing over the new year" with a kiss and the gift of a coin, went on all around, to the intense disgust and scorn of the bishop ...
Valentinus had expected to become a bishop, because he was an able man both in genius and eloquence. Being indignant, however, that another obtained the dignity by reason of a claim which confessorship had given him, he broke with the church of the true faith.