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Meeder, Sven, “Boniface and the Irish heresy of Clemens”, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 80 (2011): 251–280.

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“Boniface and the Irish heresy of Clemens”
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80
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251–280
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One of the few Irishmen active on the Continent in the eighth century of whom we have some information was a priest (or bishop) named Clemens. Together with the Gaul Aldebert, this peregrinus was the subject of an extensive correspondence between Boniface and the pope, which eventually led to the condemnation of both men at the Roman Council of 745. The accusations brought against Clemens by Boniface display parallels with known Irish teachings and practices, as well as other allegations leveled against individual traveling Irishmen and the Irish in general. This article closely examines the context of Boniface’s charges and introduces an additional source to the framing of his arguments. It argues that the allegations must be viewed in the context of both contemporary practices and debates in Irish church and society, and the portrayal of these Irish peculiarities in texts written in and spread throughout the mid-eighth-century Continent and Anglo-Saxon England.
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medieval Ireland and the Continent 8th century
History, society and culture
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AldebertAldebert
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(d. 754)
English monk and missionary.
See more Clemens [fl. 8th century]Clemens ... fl. 8th century
(fl. c.745)
Irish peregrinus and cleric accused of heresy
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Dennis Groenewegen
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