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Vita Richarii primigenia
Incoming data
Earliest vita of Richarius (Riquier), an early 7th-century Frankish nobleman and founder of the monastery of Centula (Saint-Riquier, Picardy). The text has been dated to the late 7th century.
Manuscript witnesses
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[ed.] Krusch, Bruno, “XVII: Vita Richarii sacerdotis Centulensis primigenia”, in: Bruno Krusch, and Wilhelm Levison (eds), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (V), 7, Hanover and Leipzig, 1920. 438–453.
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Secondary sources (select)
Fox, Yaniv, “The political context of Irish monasticism in seventh-century Francia: another look at the sources”, in: Sven Meeder, and Roy Flechner (eds), The Irish in early medieval Europe: identity, culture and religion, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 53–67.
Krusch, Bruno, “Die älteste Vita Richarii”, Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde 29 (1904): 13–48.
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