Maximus (bishop of Zaragoza)
Maximus was the first Visigothic bishop of Zaragoza (Hispania) in 592-619. He was also a theologian and historian.
He succeeded Simplicio of Zaragoza as Bishop and was influential in the conversion of the Visigothic Kings to Catholicism.
Maximus contributed to the Visigothic cultural renaissance of the 6th and 7th century|7th centuries, which was continued by scholars as Isidoro of Seville, Eugenio de Toledo and Braulio of Zaragoza. He wrote several works in verse and prose, according Isidoro, [1] his most prominent work would be a now lost Chronicle of the Goths in the Iberian Peninsula', the Chronica Caesaraugustana or Chronicle of Zaragoza, fragments of which have been collected by Roger Collins.[2]
He assisted at the Councils of Barcelona in 599 and Egara in 614, and held the Second Council of Zaragoza, against Arianism, in 592, and signed a decree of Gundemar of 610. It has been theorized that he wrote the Chronicles of Zaragoza, a history of that time surviving via a 16th century manuscript copy, because Isidore of Seville notes that Maximus had written on history. However, Collins (1980) and Johnson (1993) argue that the Chronicles were not the work of a single author.
Maximus was succeeded in his see by John, brother of Braulio of Zaragoza, who was in turn succeeded by Braulio; see, e.g., Collins (1995).
References
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Saragossa". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.- Collins, Roger (1980), "Mérida and Toledo: 550-585", in James, Edward (ed.), Visigothic Spain: new approaches, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-822543-0.
- Collins, Roger (1995), Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400-1000, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-12662-X
- Johnson, Gary (1993), The Chronicles of Spain: A discussion of some trends in Spanish history found in the chronicles of Hydatius of Lemica, John of Biclaro, Isidore of Seville, and the Chronicle of Zaragoza (PDF), B.A. thesis, Univ. of Queensland.
- Isidore of Seville. De viris illustribus. ed. J.-P. Migne. Patrologia Latina 83, col.1081-1106. Chapter 46.
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- ^ San Isidoro: De viris illustribus, cap. XLVI.
- ^ Véase la edición de Collins del Corpus Christianorum series latina CLXXIII A, Turnholt, 2001, pág. 118, nota 233.