Arculf

Family: Franks · Role: bishop · First appears: Book V · Chap. XV

Life events

c. 696 · Adamnan composed a profitable book about the holy places from Arculf's account.(Book V · Chap. XV)
- With: Adamnan
- “Adamnan straightway set himself to commit to writing. Thus he composed a work, as I have said, profitable to many”

pupil: Adamnan (Arculf's teaching and dictation instructed Adamnan in his account of the holy places.) “This same man wrote a book concerning the holy places, of great profit to many readers; his authority was the teaching and dictation of Arculf, a bishop of Gaul, who had gone to Jerusalem for the sake of the holy places; and having wandered over all the Promised Land, travelled also to Damascus, Constantinople, Alexandria, and many islands in the sea, and returning home by ship, was cast upon the western coast of Britain by a great tempest. After many adventures he came to the aforesaid servant of Christ, Adamnan, and being found to be learned in the Scriptures, and acquainted with the holy places, was most gladly received by him and gladly heard, insomuch that whatsoever he said that he had seen worthy of remembrance in the holy places, Adamnan straightway set himself to commit to writing.”
with Adamnan (Arculf came to Adamnan and was received and heard by him.) “After many adventures he came to the aforesaid servant of Christ, Adamnan, and being found to be learned in the Scriptures, and acquainted with the holy places, was most gladly received by him and gladly heard”
with Adamnan (Arculf provided the teaching and dictation used by Adamnan as the authority for his book.) “his authority was the teaching and dictation of Arculf, a bishop of Gaul”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.