Migne PL 139 prints the acts at col. 287 ('Acta concilii Remensis ad S. Basolum'), but its own elenchus files them under the heading 'SPURIA AUT ALIENA', which is why the authority is given here as anonymous rather than as Gerbert's (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu0139mign). HOLLIS has no edition or translation of the council: 'council of Reims 991' returns one unrelated dissertation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,council%20of%20Reims%20991&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 1 record), and the translated Gerbert corpus covers letters and papal privileges only (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gerbert%20letters%20Lattin&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The deposition of Archbishop Arnulf in 991, the occasion of the council, is recorded in the standard biography of Sylvester II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sylvester_II). No English translation of the acts as a whole was located.
The acts are the fullest surviving record of the 991 council at which Archbishop Arnulf of Reims was deposed, the case that produced the French church's bluntest arguments about papal and royal jurisdiction before the Investiture Contest. English readers meet the council only in paraphrase inside histories of the period, never as a text, and the Migne attribution needs checking before the work is treated as Gerbert's own.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1880) |
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| Who is the "we" in "we all fight back"? | Cohen Shehoah, Marcelle. "Who is the "we" in "we all fight back"?." Harvard Law School, May, 2026. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162437676703941 |