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Merdrignac, Bernard, “«L’âge des saints» : millénarisme et migration bretonne”, Études Celtiques 34 (1998–2000): 161–184.
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“«L’âge des saints» : millénarisme et migration bretonne”
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Études Celtiques 34 (1998–2000)
Études Celtiques 34 (1998–2000).
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[FR] L'analyse d'un dossier hagiographique breton du haut Moyen Age (Vitae Samsonis, Machuti, Winwaloei ) permet de faire ressortir les connotations pascales et eschatologiques que mettent en œuvre les hagiographes monastiques du VIIIe-IXe siècle. D'autre part, les recherches récentes des computistes ont établi que le comput qualifié de «celtique» avait été élaboré par Sulpice Sévère et transmis aux Eglises d'outre-Manche par les milieux martiniens de l'Eglise de Gaule. Or les aspirations millénaristes qui sous-tendent les spéculations de Sulpice-Sévère ont retrouvé toute leur actualité au moment du baptême de Clovis, présenté comme l'avènement du millenium attendu. C'est précisément à partir de la conversion du roi franc que s'amorce la seconde migration bretonne (celle des «saints»). Est-il permis d'en déduire que si les «saints» bretons sont passés sur le continent à la suite du baptême de Clovis, c'est parce que les milieux ecclésiastiques insulaires adhéraient à l'idée que la conversion du roi franc venait d'inaugurer le millenium attendu ?
[EN] «The Age of the Saints» : Millenarism and Breton migration.
Analyzing some Breton hagiographical files from the High Middle Ages (Vitae Samsonis, Machuti, Winwaloei ), one might enhance how Easter-connected eschatological meanings were carried about by monastic hagiographers in the 8th and 9th c. Moreover, recent research by computists has established that the so-called «Celtic » computus had been elaborated by Sulpicius Severus, and transmitted to the Churches over the Channel by Martin's followers in the Gaulish Church. The millenarist aspiration which underlies Sulpicius' speculations recovered a fresh momentum when Clovis was baptized, this event being presented as the beginning of the exspected millenium. The second Breton migration (that of the «saints») started precisely when the Frankish king converted himself. Could it be infered that if the Breton «saints» migrated to the Continent after Clovis' baptism, it was because Insular clerics accepted the idea that the conversion of the Frankish king had initiated the expected millenium ?
[EN] «The Age of the Saints» : Millenarism and Breton migration.
Analyzing some Breton hagiographical files from the High Middle Ages (Vitae Samsonis, Machuti, Winwaloei ), one might enhance how Easter-connected eschatological meanings were carried about by monastic hagiographers in the 8th and 9th c. Moreover, recent research by computists has established that the so-called «Celtic » computus had been elaborated by Sulpicius Severus, and transmitted to the Churches over the Channel by Martin's followers in the Gaulish Church. The millenarist aspiration which underlies Sulpicius' speculations recovered a fresh momentum when Clovis was baptized, this event being presented as the beginning of the exspected millenium. The second Breton migration (that of the «saints») started precisely when the Frankish king converted himself. Could it be infered that if the Breton «saints» migrated to the Continent after Clovis' baptism, it was because Insular clerics accepted the idea that the conversion of the Frankish king had initiated the expected millenium ?
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