Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus
Renatus Profuturus Frieridus was a late ancient Roman historian who probably lived in the second half of the 5th century.
Life
About the life of Renatus Profuturus Frieridus is other than the fact that he apparently lived the end of the 5th century and a historical work written, nothing precise is known. A relationship with similar names media ( such as two military called Profuturus and / or Frieridus in the late 4th century) is possible, but by no means assured; also is a Nachbenennung imaginable. Can therefore only speculate about his background. An obvious, however, is the assumption that Frieridus of civil or military late Roman elite belonged.
Work
Frieridus wrote a historical work in Latin, which included at least twelve books and, as the name Historiae ( Histories ) suggests, the time history was dedicated. It probably ended with the death of Flavius Aetius 454
The work has not survived, but it was used by the living in the 6th century bishop and historian Gregory of Tours, the relatively extensively quoted twice from it. The first quote contains a very advantageous character sketch of Aetius that Gregor has apparently taken verbatim from Frieridus because, among other things, the Divinisierung of the Western Roman Emperor Flavius Honorius is mentioned. In the research is drawn to the similarity with the praises of Flavius Merobaudes. Frieridus was based on this pattern examples of classical Latin literature.
In the second quote Frieridus looks at the Rhine crossing of 406 and described the fighting between the Vandals and the Frankish federates that the attackers counter stood before the Alans under Respendial the Vandals came to the rescue. Phillip Wynn few years ago, a new interpretation of this point suggested: Since Frieridus this episode Gregor According to the context of the sack of Rome (410 ) told of this event was to lay also in the year 410 and not to the Rhine, but to Hispania. Wynns also believe it was due to the form of the name in some manuscripts at the Alans to " Alemanni " (or possibly the Suebi ). In research Wynns thesis is controversial and is often likely to be rejected. In the same section of text in Gregory Frieridus is still regarding the usurpation of Constantine III. cited in this time.
Frieridus was probably a Christian author. His work served Gregor apparently besides the Historia of Sulpicius Alexander also not received as an important source for the early history of the Franks and especially for the events in the west of the Roman Empire. It is possible in this context that Frieridus has continued the work of Sulpicius Alexander. Both works were apparently in the tradition of classical historiography and point (like the great work of Ammianus Marcellinus ) to a final stage of late antique history literature that soon broke off. You are also likely to have influenced in some way Gregor, in whose histories influence of late antique secular historians are recognizable.
Expenditure
- Gregory of Tours: Ten Books stories. Due to the translation Wilhelm Giese Brecht re-edited by Rudolf Buchner. Band 1 ( 2 ). University Press, Darmstadt 1955/1956, pp. 78-89 ( with the corresponding passages in the second book of Gregory 2, 8, 2, 9).