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:HJ, we *know* you can find references to this in modern secondary sources. Plese find one that gives a FOOTNOTE to a ninth century primary or secondary source giving the same story. I can't find any ninth century reference. I would be happy to use a later ninth or early tenth century reference, if it is made clear that the 10th century reference is not contemporary with the event. We are not concerned with what modern historians say about this circumstance, but on what they base their statement. Without a footnote to a text I can check, it sounds like 19th century blame-assignment for a 'lost text'. There are many, many 'lost texts' in the history of scholarship that we regret not having (Aristotle's lost book on Comedy (we have Tragedy) provided the plot for Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose). However, simply asserting that Louis the Pious destroyed them because they were 'too pagan' without a reference is not enough. --MichaelTinkler |
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