Claudien Mamert

Claudien Mamert (Claudianus Mamertus) is a Philosophe and Gallo-Roman Théologien of the end of Ve century. Contemporary and friend of Sidoine Apollinaire, which describes it as a disciple of Plato which would not be distinguished of anything of the other Platonic ones, if not by his faith of Christian. It establishes the link, in the Latin Occident, between Augustin and Boèce.

Biography

One knows about nothing Claudien Mamert, if not that it was undoubtedly born in the town of Vienna, as a Gaulle, close to Lyon, at the beginning of Ve century and which it is deceased after 470. It is thought that it made its studies in Lyon. It was ordered priest by his brother, Saint Mamert, which was bishop of Vienna, and which it supported in his priesthood. With his brother one owes the institution of the Rogations , towards 469.

Works

Claudien Mamert is especially known for its work of statu animae (in three books, appeared towards 468-470), that it dedicated to Sidoine Apollinaire. One owes him two letters and Sidoine Apollinaire speaks about a Lectionnaire.

the Of statu animae

The little of case which we make today of this work should not make forget that it was during almost the totality of the Middle Ages one of traditional of the psychology (of the works relating to the heart). Cassiodore is inspired some in its By Animated and Abélard in XIIe century quotes it regularly. Nicolas de Clairvaux, the secretary of Bernard de Clairvaux, literally carries it to naked and compares it with Saint Augustin.

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