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BIBLICAL PATTERNING IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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HL 3.31
English In this place the messengers of the emperor came to them announcing that his army was at hand to aid them and saying: "After...
Michaela Selway
Feb 102 min read
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HL 1.25
English At this period the emperor Justinian was governing the Roman empire with good fortune. He was both prosperous in waging wars and...
Michaela Selway
Feb 103 min read
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HL I.14
English Meanwhile the leaders lbor and Aio, who had conducted the Langobards from Scadinavia and had ruled them up to this time, being...
Michaela Selway
Jan 272 min read
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DLH II.3a
English, II.3, p.108-10 When he realized that he was to be dragged away forcibly, Eugenius managed to convey the following letter to the...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20236 min read
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DLH II.3c
English, pp.110-112 Saint Eugenius was then led before the King and there he disputed with this bishop of the Arians in defence of the...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20235 min read
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DLH II.23
English, p.137 After the death of Sidonius, the evil priest, the second of the two, the one who was still alive, blinded with greed,...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20236 min read
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DLH II.37
English, p.152 That night he prayed that God might deign to indicate a ford by which he might make the crossing. As day dawned an...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20234 min read
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DLH III.14
English, p.173-175 A man called Munderic, who pretended to be of royal blood, was so swollen with pride that he said: 'What is King...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20238 min read
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DLH III.15
English, pp.177-179 They came to the River Moselle, which they had to cross. They were held up by the locals, so they abandoned their...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20236 min read
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DLH IV.31
English, pp. 224-225 A great prodigy appeared in Gaul at the fortress of Tauredunum, which was situated on high ground above the River...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20234 min read
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DLH X.6
English, p.553 One night in the gaol at Clermont-Ferrand the chains holding the prisoners came undone by the intervention of God, the...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20231 min read
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DLH IV.36b
English, p.231-2 Bishop Priscus, who succeeded Nicetius, began, with his wife Susanna, to persecute and even put to death many of those...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20237 min read
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DLH X.25
English, pp.584-586 In Gaul the bubonic plague which I have so often had occasion to mention attacked Marseilles. A terrible famine...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20237 min read
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DLH II.7
English, p.116-117 Attila the King of the Huns marched forward from Metz and ravaged a great number of other cities in Gaul." He came to...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20234 min read
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DLH IV.42
English, p.236 Eunius, surnamed Mummolus, was made a patrician by King Guntram. I have decided to go into his early career in some...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20239 min read
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DLH IV.51a
English, pp.247-8 In that year lightning was observed to flicker across the sky, just as we saw it before Lothar's death. Once he had...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20232 min read
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DLH V.16
English, p.273-4 The following events occurred in Brittany. Macliaw and Bodic, two Breton chieftains, swore an oath to each other that...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20232 min read
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DLH V.17b
English, p.274-5 Soon after this King Guntram sent envoys to his nephew Childebert to sue for peace and to suggest a meeting. Childebert...
Michaela Selway
Jul 13, 20233 min read
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DLH V.18
English, p.277-9 Among their number were two sycophants - it is sad to say this about bishops - who rushed off to the King to report all...
Michaela Selway
Jul 12, 20238 min read
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DLH VI.6
English, pp.333-337 At this time there lived near the town of Nice a recluse called Hospicius. He was a man of great abstinence, who bad...
Michaela Selway
Jul 12, 202311 min read
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