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TESTIMONIES

Several accounts from the Ancients concerning Johannes Scottus Eriugena.

Prudentius of Troyes Bishop of Troyes (d. 861), a contemporary and theological opponent of Eriugena. in his book against Johannes Scottus.

Ireland sent you, the most acute of all men, to Gaul. original: "Te solum omnium acutissimum Galliae transmisit Hibernia." Written ironically.

Pardulus, Bishop of Laon, concerning Jo. Scottus.

But because these [opinions] were greatly in disagreement with one another, we compelled that Irishman named Johannes, who is in the palace of the King [Charles the Bald], to write.

From the History of the Bishops of Auxerre.

Humbald of Cambrai, being excellently instructed in the studies of the liberal arts, became a follower of Johannes Scottus, who at that time was pouring forth the rays of wisdom throughout Gaul; adhering to his discipline for a long time, he learned both divine and human [matters] -----?.

Anonymous Chronicle in Chesne, Volume III.

At the request of Alfred King Alfred the Great of England., Johannes Scottus returned from France, where he had been with Charles the Bald.

Roger of Wendover in his Chronicle for the year 883.

In the year 883, Master Johannes Scottus, a man of sharp intellect, came into England.

From the Life of Abbot Grimbald, seemingly written by Goscelin.

King Alfred, by the advice of Ethelred, Archbishop of Canterbury, sent envoys to the Monastery of St. Bertin to summon Grimbald; among these, the priest Johannes and Asser, men of the most learned and lively intellect, were preeminent.

Annals of Hyde.

In the year of the Lord's incarnation 886, the second year of the arrival of St. Grimbald in England, the University of Oxford was begun This is a legendary claim often found in older histories, attributing Oxford's founding to Alfred. ----- with St. Neot reading in Sacred Theology ----- and Grimbald ---- and in Grammar and Rhetoric, the monk Asser ---- and in Dialectic, Music, and Arithmetic, Johannes, a monk of the Church of St. Davids original: "Menevensis Ecclesiae", and in Geometry and Astronomy, the teacher was Johannes the Monk, a colleague of St. Grimbald.

William of Malmesbury in Book 5 of "On the Bishops," unpublished.

In the time of this Alfred, Johannes Scottus came to England, a man of sharp intellect and great eloquence. Having left his own country, he had previously crossed into France to Charles the Bald, by whom he was received with great esteem and held as an intimate friend. He shared with the King both business and jokes, being an inseparable companion of both his table and his chambers. He was a man of much wit and natural charm, examples of which survive today, such as these: He was sitting at the table opposite the King on the other side; as the cups went round and the dishes were finished, Charles, with a cheerful expression, after some other talk, saw that Johannes had done something which the French—