Among the intellectuals of the Carolingian Renaissance of the Ninth Century, few are as prolific and influential as Hrabanus Maurus (c.780- 856), a monk and abbot of the monastery of Fulda and then archbishop of Mainz. Most famous to modern authors as the putative author of the hymn "Come, Holy Ghost," Hrabanus was highly esteemed by generations of medieval intellectuals, including Dante who located the archbishop among St. Bonaventure's cohort in the sphere of the Sun. This volume presents for the first time in English translation Hrabanus' pedagogical masterpiece On the Formation of Clergy...
Among the intellectuals of the Carolingian Renaissance of the Ninth Century, few are as prolific and influential as Hrabanus Maurus (c.780- 856), a mo...
