Pastoral care and prognostics in the Carolingian period. The case of El Escorial, Real Biblioteca di SAn Lorenzo, Ms L III 8.
Pastoral care and prognostics in the Carolingian period. The case of El Escorial, Real Biblioteca di SAn Lorenzo, Ms L III 8.
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加洛林时期的教牧关怀和预后。
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2017
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A. V. Rhijn
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本文试图回答这样一个问题：通常被解释为“迷信”甚至“异教”的预言文本在加洛林时期的田园纲要中可能会做什么。它并没有遵循传统的解释，将《圣经》视为属于基督教世界之外的文本，相反，它认为，这些文本非常适合中世纪早期的田园关怀和值得信赖的基督教知识。这里重要的不是它们的基督教前起源，而是它们植根于备受推崇的计算传统，即基督教的时间计算科学。因此，在中世纪早期的思想中，使用田园诗的目的并没有固有的问题。这反过来又揭示了向平信徒社区提供牧师关怀的牧师的地位：鉴于他们使用的是宗教学，他们的专业知识必须扩展到我们现代对宗教的理解之外的领域。
This article tries to answer the question of what prognostic texts, often interpreted as ‘superstitious’ or even ‘pagan’, might be doing in a pastoral compendium of the Carolingian period. Rather than following the classical interpretation of prognostics as texts that belonged outside Christendom, it argues that, to the contrary, such texts fit in very well in a context of early medieval pastoral care and trustworthy Christian knowledge. What counted here was not their pre-Christian origins, but the fact that they were anchored in the highly respected tradition of computus, the science of Christian time-reckoning. There was, therefore, no inherent problem in early medieval minds to use prognostics for pastoral purposes. This, in turn, sheds new light on the position of the priest who dispensed pastoral care to communities of laymen : given their use of prognostics, their expertise had to extend to areas that are beyond our modern understanding of religion.