2 163. AMALARIUS. 701
of Fulda. Every year on Sturm's day (Dec. 17) it was read aloud to the monks while at dinner. EigiFs own biography was written by Candidas, properly Brunn, whom Katgar hud sent for instruction to Einhard at Seligeustadt, and who was principal of the convent school under Rabanus Maurus. The biography is in two parts, the second being substantially only a repetition in verse of the first.1
§ 163. Amalarius.
I. SYMPHOSIUS AMALARIUS : Opera omnia in Migne, Tom. CV. col.
815-1340. His Carmina are in DUMMLER, Poetce Latini cevi Carolini, I. 42(3-428.
II. Du PIN, VII. 79, 158-160. CEILLIER, XII. 221-223. Hist. lit. de la
France, IV. 531-546. CLARKE, II. 471-473. BAHR, 380-383. HEFELE, IV. 10, 45, 87, 88. EBERT, II. 221, 222.
AMALARIUS was a deacon and priest in Metz, and died in 837, as abbot of Hornbach in the same diocese. It is not known when or where he was born. During the deposition of Agobard (833-837), Amalarius was head of the church at Lyons. He was one of the ecclesiastics who enjoyed the friendship of Louis the Pious, and took part in the predestination controversy, but his work against Gottschalk, undertaken at Hincmar's request, is lost. He was prominent in councils. Thus he made the patristic compilation from the Fathers (particularly from Isidore of Seville) and councils upon the canonical life, which was pre sented at the Diet at Aix-la-Chapelle in 81 7,2 and partly that upon image-worship in the theological congress of Paris, pre sented Dec. 6, 825. In 834, as representative of Agobard, he held a council at Lyons and discoursed to the members for three days upon the ecclesiastical offices, as explained in his work mentioned below. The majority approved, but Florus of Lyons did not, and sent two letters to the council at Diedenhofen, call-
1 The second part is in Diimmler, Poetce, II. pp. 94-117.
J The Forma institutionis canonicorum et sanctimonialium in Migne, Tom. CV. 815-976, is the full collection in two books, but Amalarius' share was confined to the first book and probably only to a part of that. Cf. Hefele, IV. 10.
702 FOUKTH PEEIOD. A. D. 590-1049.
ing attention to Amalarius' insistence upon the use of the Roman order and his dangerous teaching : that there was a threefold body of Christ, (1) the body which he had assumed, (2) the body which he has in us so long as we live, (3) the body which is in the dead. Hence the host must be divided into three parts, one of which is put in the cup, one on the paten and one on the altar, corresponding to these three forms respectively. Farther he was charged with teaching that the bread of the Eucharist stood for the body, the wine for the soul of Christ*, the chalice for his sepulchre, the celebrant for Joseph of Arimathea, the archdea con for Nicodemus, the deacons for the apostles, the sub-deacons for the women at the sepulchre. But the council had business in hand of too pressing a character to admit of their investigating these charges. Not discouraged, Florus sent a similar letter to the council of Quiercy (838), and by this council the work of Amalarius was censured.1
His writings embrace (1) Rules for the canonical life? already referred to. It treats of the duties of ecclesiastics of all grades.
(2) Four books upon The ecclesiastical offices.3 It was written by request of Louis the Pious, to whom it is dedicated, and was completed about 820. In order to make it better, Amalarius pursued special investigations in Tours, at the monastery of Corbie, and even went to Rome. In 827 he brought out a sec ond and greatly improved edition. In its present shape the work is important for the study of liturgies, since it describes minutely the exact order of service as it was observed in the Roman church in the ninth century. If Amalarius had been content to have given merely information it would have been better for his reputation. As it was he attempted to give the reasons and the meanings of each part of the service, and of each article in any way connected with the service, and hence
1 See Florus' letters in Migne, Tom. CXTX. col. 71-96.
1 Regula canonicorum, in Migne, CV. col. 815-934.
8 De ecclesiasticis officiis libri quatuor, ibid. col. 985-1242.