Original scientific paper
Toma Archdeacon’s Recollection of theyear 1222
Milan Ivanišević
Abstract
This study is based on the description of the earthquake that occurred
on December 25, 1222 in northern Italy where seventeen contemporary descriptions were provided (Giovanni Codagnello, Marchisius, Parisio da Cera, Rolandino, Salimbene de Adam, Notae Sancti Georgii Mediolanenses, Annales Bergomates, Annales Cremonenses, Annales Brixienses,
Annales Parmenses maiores, Annales Mantuani, Corpus Chronicorum
Bononeinsium, Annales Sanctae Justinae Patavini). Only did Toma
archdeacon of Split (1200 – May 8, 1268), the then student of Bologna, make mention in his work Historia Salonitanorum atque Spalatinorum pontificum of the heretics of Brescia having died in that earthquake:
«ciuitas uero Brixiana ex magna parte sui prostrata est multaque hominum multitudo et maxime hereticorum opressa est et extincta.»
The comparison with the others testifies Toma’s exceptional
sensitivity to heresy and elaborates upon his laying stress on the heresy in the archdiocese of Split, archdiocese of Zadar, and the diocese of Krk.
Toma’s reminiscence of Arius’ death is another instance in
favour of his good knowledge of the history of early Church. Not
by a minor detail in his description of the death does he reveal the
original source since it can be in Toma’s knowledge of the works
of Athanasius and Socrates Scholasticus but also in another source
quoting Arius and the arianism.
Thus his erudition is given still wider significance.
Keywords
Heresy; arians; cathars; dualists; earthquake; punishment; death
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39265
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Publication date:
1.9.2008.
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