Agobard and Amalarius: a Comparison
Allen Cabaniss
The rich diversity of thought and life in the ninth-century church may be illustrated by an inquiry concerning two dignitaries empire Louis Pious, Agobard Lyons (769–840) Amalarius Metz ( c. 780– 850). These clerics, whose lives were virtually contemporaneous but careers crossed only once, during interval 834–838, almost as different it is possible for men to be; so indeed that any contact they might have with each other would inevitably sharply antagonistic. single point at which their did meet was effect intellectual duel.
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