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The Patrologia Latina is an enormous work published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865. It is a monumental work and is still influential for scholars of the Middle Ages, comparable to the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. The Patrologia Latina is one part of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, the second part of which is the Patrologia Graeco-Latina, consisting of medieval Greek works with Latin translations.
The Patrologia Latina includes over 1000 years of Latin works from Tertullian to Pope Innocent III. There are 217 volumes: volumes 1 to 73, from Tertullian to Gregory of Tours, was published from 1844 to 1849, and volumes 74 to 217, from Pope Gregory I to Innocent III, was published from 1849 to 1855. Although the collection ends in 1216 after the death of Innocent III, Migne originally wanted to include documents all the way up to the Reformation; this task proved too great, but some later commentaries or documents associated with earlier works were included.
The printing plates for the Patrologia were destroyed by fire in 1868Events January 3 Meiji Emperor declares " Meiji Restoration", his own restoration to full power, against the supporters of the Tokugawa Shogunate. January 10 Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu declares emperor's declaration "illegal" and attacks Kyoto. Pro-Emperor, but with help from the Garnier printing house they were restored and new editions were printed beginning in the 1880s.
1 Notable authors in the Patrologia
These are some of the more notable authors included in the Patrologia, with the volume(s) in which they appear. Most of the works are ecclesiastic in nature, but there are also documents of literary, historical or linguistic (such as the GothicThe Gothic language gutiska razda 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺) is a Germanic language known to us by a translation of the Bible known as Codex Argenteus ("The Silver Bible") dating from the 4th century AD, of which some books su bible in vol. 18) interest.
- Tertullian (volumes 1-3)
- Felix Marcus MinuciusFelix Marcus Minucius was one of the earliest if not the earliest, of the Latin apologists for Christianity. Of his personal history nothing is known, and even the date at which he wrote can be only approximately ascertained. Jerome De vir. 58) speaks of (3)
- Pope CorneliusCornelius was pope elected on either March 6 or March 13, 251 during the lull in the persecution of the emperor Trajan Decius. His election was opposed by Novatian, who maintained the view that not even the bishops could grant remission for grave sins lik (3)
- Novatian (3)
- Pope Stephen IStephen I pope (about March 12, 254 to August 2, 257). Of Roman birth but of Greek ancestry, he became bishop of Rome in 254, when internal disputes racking the Church were as much a threat as the external persecutions. He withdrew from church fellowship (3)
- CyprianThis page does not concern Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow. Biography Saint Cyprian (Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus), bishop of Carthage and an important early Christian writer, was born probably at the beginning of the third century in North Africa, perhap (3-4)
- ArnobiusArnobius of Sicca (died c. was a Christian apologist, during the reign of Diocletian ( 284 305). According to Jerome's Chronicle Arnobius before his conversion was a distinguished rhetorician at Sicca Veneria (Le Kef, Tunisia), a major Christian center in (5)
- Lactantius (6-7)
- Constantine I (8)
- Hilary of Poitiers (9-10)
- Eusebius of Vercelli (12)
- Lucifer Calaritanus (13)
- Ambrose of Milan (14-17)
- Ulfilas (18)
- Symmachus (18)
- Martin of Tours (18)
- Sulpicius Severus (20)
- Pope Innocent I (20)
- Rufinus (21)
- Pelagius (21)
- Jerome (22-30)
- Orosius (31)
- Augustine of Hippo (32-47)
- Cassian (49-50)
- Prosper of Aquitaine (51)
- Salvian (53)
- Saint Patrick (53)
- Pope Leo I (54-56)
- Pope Hilarius (58)
- Pope Simplicius (58)
- Pope Felix III (58)
- Pope Gelasius I (59)
- Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (60)
- Paulinus of Nola (61)
- Boethius (63-64)
- Magnus Felix Ennodius (63)
- Pope Hormisdas (63)
- Pope Felix IV (64)
- Pope Boniface II (64)
- Gilbert de la Porrée (64)
- Benedict of Nursia (66)
- Dionysius Exiguus (67)
- Cassiodorus (69-70)
- Gregory of Tours (71)
- Pope Pelagius II (72)
- Pope John II (72)
- Pope Benedict I (72)
- Pope Gregory I (75-79)
- Isidore of Seville (81-84)
- Venantius Fortunatus (88)
- Pope Sergius I (89)
- Pope John VI (89)
- Boniface (89)
- Bede (90-95)
- Pope Leo II (96)
- Charlemagne (97-98)
- Lothar (97-98)
- Theodore of Tarsus (99)
- Alcuin (100-101)
- Benedict of Aniane (103)
- Einhard (104)
- Louis the Pious (104)
- Theodulf (105)
- Pope Gregory IV (106)
- Pope Sergius II (106)
- Rabanus Maurus (107-112)
- Walafrid Strabo (113-114)
- Pope Leo IV (115)
- Pope Benedict III (115)
- Pope Nicholas I (119)
- Radbertus (120)
- Ratramnus (121)
- Gottschalk (121)
- John the Scot (122)
- Charles the Bald (124)
- Hincmar (125-126)
- Regino of Prüm (132)
- Odo of Cluny (133)
- Flodoard (135)
- Pope John XIII (135)
- Liutprand of Cremona (136)
- Hroswitha of Gandersheim (137)
- Dunstan (137)
- Pope Sylvester II (139)
- Aimoin (139)
- Abbo of Fleury (139)
- Thietmar (139)
- Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (140)
- Adalberon, bishop of Laon (141)
- Adémar de Chabannes (141)
- Fulbert of Chartres (141)
- Pope John XIX (141)
- Hermannus Contractus (143)
- Pope Leo IX (143)
- Adam of Bremen (146)
- Marianus Scotus (147)
- Pope Gregory VII (148)
- Pope Victor III (149)
- Anselm of Lucca (149)
- Lanfranc (150)
- Pope Urban II (151)
- Bruno of Chartreuse (152-153)
- Alexius I Comnenus (155)
- Baldwin I of Jerusalem (155)
- Fulcher of Chartres (155)
- Godfrey of Bouillon (155)
- Guibert of Nogent (155)
- Louis VII of France (155)
- Odo of Bayeux (155)
- Peter Tudebode (155)
- Raymond of Aguilers (155)
- Robert the Monk (155)
- Anselm of Canterbury (158-159)
- Ivo of Chartres (161-162)
- Anselm of Laon (162)
- Pope Paschal II (163)
- Pope Gelasius II (163)
- Pope Calixtus II (163)
- Baldric of Dol (166)
- Pope Honorius II (166)
- Hugh of St. Victor (175-177)
- Peter Abelard (178)
- William of Malmesbury (179)
- Pope Eugenius III (180)
- Bernard of Clairvaux (182-185)
- Abbot Suger (186)
- Gratian (187)
- Orderic Vitalis (188)
- Pope Anastasius IV (188)
- Pope Adrian IV (188)
- Peter the Venerable (189)
- Thomas Becket (190)
- Peter Lombard (191-192)
- Richard of St. Victor (196)
- Hildegard of Bingen (197)
- John of Salisbury (199)
- Pope Alexander III (200)
- William of Tyre (201)
- Pope Urban III (202)
- Pope Gregory VIII (202)
- Pope Clement III (204)
- Pope Celestine III (206)
- Alain de Lille (210)
- Pope Innocent III (214-217)