Rathier de Vérone

Résumé éditeur

"The essays gathered in the volume (nine previous publications, enriched with a bibliographic update, and two unpublished studies) are the culmination of François Dolbeau's long fidelity to one of the most unique and fascinating authors of the Latin Middle Ages: Ratherius of Verona (died 974). Dolbeau masterfully reconstructs the tradition of Ratherius's works and the history of the libraries in which they were preserved, drawing an elegant portrait of his sophisticated intellectual profile. The bishop of Verona emerges as an indefatigable reader, a writer and rewriter of hagiographical texts and, thanks to a newly discovered series of anonymous sermons, as a centoist of the patristic works that he carefully read and assimilated. By virtue of its rigour and completeness, the volume constitutes an essential methodological reference, and represents a major landmark in modern research on Ratherius."