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Paul the Deacon (c. 720s – 13 April in 796, 797, 798, or 799 AD), also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefridus, Barnefridus, or Winfridus, and sometimes suffixed Cassinensis (i.e. "of Monte Cassino"), was a Benedictine monk, scribe, and historian of the Lombards.
Paul The Deacon (born c. 720, Cividale del Friuli, Lombardy [Italy]—died c. 799, Montecassino, Benevento) was a Lombard historian and poet, whose Historia Langobardorum (“History of the Lombards”) is the principal source on his people.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The History of the Lombards or the History of the Langobards (Latin: Historia Langobardorum) is the chief work by Paul the Deacon, written in the late 8th century. This incomplete history in six books was written after 787 and at any rate no later than 796, maybe at Montecassino .
2020, Historical Writing in the Lombard Kingdom: from Secundus to Paul the Deacon, in: Historiography & Identity 2: Post-Roman Multiplicity and New Political Identities. ed. Gerda Heydemann and Helmut Reimitz (Turnhout 2020), pp. 319-49. Paul’s Lombard History was a great success, and survives in well over a hundred medieval copies.
- Walter Pohl
Dec 10, 2020 · ‘Writing is [only] one way of giving shape to the past’, but even so, despite the transit of 1200 years it is remarkable how much of Paul's narratives still frame and determine modern versions of early medieval Italian history. This book looks at the narrative structures of Paul the Deacon's principal prose works.
Jun 27, 2024 · This chapter has two principal aims. First, it analyses the structure of each of the books in detail; secondly, it discusses what Paul did put in his work and why. The analysis will focus on the context and construction of the narrative framework.
Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more — all for only $19.99... (Paulus Diaconus; also called Casinensis, Levita, and Warnefridi). Historian, born at Friuli about 720; died 13 April, probably 799.
