Sedulius

…Paulinus of Nola, born in Bordeaux, France, was another excellent Christian poet, but with even more gentle feelings, he composed songs for the birth of Saint Felix and Christian wedding songs. The 5th and 6th centuries that followed were a time of anxiety and turmoil as the western part of the empire was conquered by Germanic tribes, and literature declined completely. However, the fervor of faith, by contrast, grew stronger, and such poets as Orosius, a disciple of Augustine, the apologist, Salvianus, author of On the Government of God, Sedulius (active around 470), who is said to be the most Christian poet, Boethius, known for his Consolation of Philosophy, and Cassiodorus, whose bibliography includes The History of the Church, are particularly noteworthy in terms of missionary activities, including Benedict, who founded the Benedictine Order after Pope Leo I in the 5th century, and Pope Gregory I. All three of these men produced a great deal of writing, including sermons, treatises, and letters, for the purpose of establishing doctrine and regulating monastic orders, but Benedict's Rule in particular had a major influence on later generations.

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…フランスのボルドーに生まれた，ノラのパウリヌスも彼につづくすぐれたキリスト教詩人であるが，さらに優しい心情で聖フェリクス誕生の祝歌や，キリスト者の婚礼歌などをつくっている。　これにつづく5～6世紀は，帝国西部がゲルマン民族に攻略され，不安と騒乱に陥った時代で文学もまったく衰えたが，信仰の情熱は対比的にはげしくなり，アウグスティヌスの弟子である護教家オロシウスや，《神の統治について》などの著者サルウィアヌス，最もキリスト的な詩人といわれるセドゥリウスSedulius(470年ころ活動)，散文では《哲学の慰め》で知られるボエティウスや，《教会史》を著作目録に含むカッシオドルスがあり，布教活動の面では，5世紀の教皇レオ1世ののち，ベネディクト会をはじめたベネディクトゥスと教皇グレゴリウス1世が特筆に値する。この3人はいずれも教義の確立や修道会の規制のため，説教，論説，書簡など多量の著述をもったが，ことにベネディクトゥスの〈修道会会則(ベネディクトゥス会則)〉は後世に大きな影響を与えた。…

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