#onthisday 314AD @caitlinrgreen Arles 1st Council opening Welcomes among others Bishops Eborius York Restitutus London Adelfius Lincoln
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No refs yet as we're still working on getting it published, but it's quite concerning how much history has been built on Mann's hypothesis!
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Speaking here as a simple amateur, so many strong opinions are based on reports of hearsay... until you start readind and searching and you discover things are not reported properly.
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Quite. The printed transcript (actually dating from 1629) adds punctuation and line breaks that are not present in the original manuscript, inventing a place called "Colonia Londiniensium".
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Ah the joys of rewriting. I am reading Gregory of Tours w/ different versions some saying no name for 1st Frank's king some saying opposite
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All because one wrote Valentinus instead of a uallentinus or about.
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The current Lincoln theory is based mainly on J C Mann's 1961 paper in Antiquity, which gives the usual (since 1670) transcript of the Codex Corbiensis. The original manuscript is now available on the BnF website and suggests another solution.
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