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Agobard of Lyon (c. 769 –840) was a Spanish-born priest and archbishop of Lyon, during the Carolingian Renaissance.The author of multiple treatises, ranging in subject matter from the iconoclast controversy to Spanish Adoptionism to critiques of the Carolingian royal family, Agobard is best known for his critiques of Jewish religious practices and political power in the Frankish-Carolingian ...
Perhaps the best known work on tempestarii was an 815 AD piece called "On Hail and Thunder" by a bishop, Agobard of Lyon. Some describe it as a complaint of the irreligious beliefs of his flock, as villagers resented paying tithes to the church, but freely paid a form of insurance against storms to village tempestarii; but, it was also noted, whenever a supposed weathermaker failed to prevent ...
Magonia is the name of the cloud realm whence felonious aerial sailors were said to have come, according to commonly-held beliefs denounced in the polemical treatise by Carolingian bishop Agobard of Lyon in 815, where he argues against weather magic.
The earliest known mention is an oblique mention by Agobard, archbishop of Lyon, c. 826, and then another mention by his successor, Amulo, c. 849. [3] [22] [23] However, since Agobard does not refer to the source by name it cannot be certain that this is the Toledot. [24] The source material for the Toledot can be said to derive from four sources:
Agobard was known for his anti-Jewish campaigns and was involved in the revolt against Louis in 833. [32] When Louis regained the throne in 834, Agobard was sent into exile and temporarily replaced by Amalarius of Metz, former archbishop of Trier, who was more favourably disposed towards Jews. [33]
During the exile of Agobard the See of Lyon had been for a short time administered by Amalarius of Metz, whom the deacon Florus of Lyon, the master of the cathedral school, [18] charged with heretical opinions regarding the "triforme corpus Christi." [19] Florus also took part in the controversies with Gottschalk on the subject of ...
Agobard, Archbishop of Lyons 840 Ansovinus 840 Bishop of Camerino: Arnulf 840 Bolcan (Olcan of Kilmayle) 840 Bishop of Derban: Paul 840 Bishop of Prusa: Theophylact 840 Aldericus 841 Theodore and Theophanes 841 Bernard (Barnard) 778 842 Ardo Smaragdus 843 Gohardus and Companions 843 Paulinus 843 Bishop of Capua
Agobard, archbishop of Lyons (c. 779–840) stated that the relics of Speratus, and those of Cyprian, were translated by Charlemagne's orders from Carthage to Lyons. [1]The historical questions connected with these martyrs were addressed by bishop Joseph Barber Lightfoot in Epistles of Ignatius and Polycarp, 1885.