The principal aim of this paper is to describe the ascetic community founded by Sulpicius Severus at Primuliacum. A comparison with what happened at the same time in the southern Italian town of Nola will follow. Sulpicius and Paulinus shared similar qualities of noble birth, the ambition common to young provincial aristocrats, the love for tranquillity and rustic 'otium' and, eventually, the conversion to asceticism.
And the villa became a monastery: Sulpicius Severus' community of Primuliacum / Roberto Alciati. - STAMPA. - (2011), pp. 85-98.
And the villa became a monastery: Sulpicius Severus' community of Primuliacum
Roberto Alciati
2011
Abstract
The principal aim of this paper is to describe the ascetic community founded by Sulpicius Severus at Primuliacum. A comparison with what happened at the same time in the southern Italian town of Nola will follow. Sulpicius and Paulinus shared similar qualities of noble birth, the ambition common to young provincial aristocrats, the love for tranquillity and rustic 'otium' and, eventually, the conversion to asceticism.
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