Vita Gerardi episcopi Potentini (BHL 3429)

Biagio Luca Guarnaccio

Vita Gerardi episcopi Potentini (BHL 3429): introduction, critical edition, translation

Authors

Biagio Luca Guarnaccio

University of Basilicata

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1563-2652

Keywords:

Medieval History, Agiography, Potenza, S. Gerardo

Synopsis

Publisher: BUP – Basilicata University Press

Series: Mediterranean Worlds, 3

Pages: 122

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-26409

Abstract: The Vita Gerardi episcopi Potentini, also known as Laudatio sancti Gerardi episcopi Potentini (BHL 3429), is the only known work attributed to Manfredi, bishop of Potenza. This edition, unlike the one published in the Acta Sanctorum (1883), is based on all the manuscripts currently known and available, as well as on Ughelli's edtitio princeps (1659).

The volume is preliminary to a broader study which aims to improve our knowledge about the hagiography of Basilicata for the age of Reform (10th-12th century). Starting from a precise contextualization of the period, and proceeding with the tools of history, philology and literature, it investigates the diocesan seat of Potenza, which until a few decades ago was a suffragan of Acerenza. In this way it is possible to reconstruct the figure of its patron saint, Gerardo, in order to offer a more correct historical dimension, which was often obscured by centuries-old mythical-folkloric superfetations.

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Author Biography

Biagio Luca Guarnaccio, University of Basilicata

Biagio Luca Guarnaccio is a PhD student in History, cultures and knowledge of Mediterranean Europe from antiquity to the contemporary age, at the University of Basilicata. His research focuses on holiness in Basilicata between the tenth and thirteenth centuries.