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Vivianus
Vivianus is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Vivianus (jurist), second century Roman jurist * Flavius Antoninus Messala Vivianus, a Roman politician and consul in 463 * Saint Vivianus (died c. 490), French saint and first known bishop of Saintes {{given name Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivianus (jurist)
Vivianus was a Roman jurist of the second century. Ulpian quotes his decision with regard to whether slave Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...s behaving in a strange or unbalanced manner should be considered defective goods, so that a purchaser could return them for a refund. Vivianus' opinion Under the law as stated by the aediles, property could be returned for ''vitium'', a fault or defect; but Vivianus gives the example of a slave who formerly behaved as if under some religious hysteria, but no longer did so. In this case, he explained, there was no longer any ''vitium'', and a purchaser could no more bring an action against the seller for sale of defective goods than if the slave had been sick, but since recovered. If, on the other hand, the slave persisted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavius Antoninus Messala Vivianus
Flavius Antoninus Messala Vivianus (fl. 459–463) was an administrator of the Eastern Roman Empire. __NOTOC__ Biography Vivianus was the father of Paulus (Consul in 512) and Adamantius. His full nomenclature is found on a monument from an uncertain province, indicating that he held the ranks of ''vir illustris'' and '' patricius'', and that he had been praetorian prefect and ''consul ordinarius''. He was praetorian prefect of the East between 459 and 460. In 463 he was appointed Consul by the Eastern court, but he was not recognised in the West, where the only consul was Caecina Decius Basilius Caecina Decius Basilius ( 458–468) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire, Consul and twice Praetorian prefect of Italy. Biography Basilius belonged to the Italian nobility, and was member of the influential ''gens'' Caecinia. He was Pr .... References Sources * Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Fl. Vivianus 2", ''The Prosopography of the Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Vivianus
Vivianus (also Bibianus; died c. 490) was an early saint of the French (Francian) church and the first known bishop of Saintes The former French diocese of Saintes existed from the 6th century to the French Revolution. Its bishops had their see in the cathedral of Saintes in western France, in the modern department of Charente-Maritime. After the Concordat of 1801, the .... A brief ''Life'' of his dated to the mid 6th century was edited by Krush in 1896.MGH, SRM 3 (1896), 94-100. Krusch thought the text dated to the Carloingina period, but it is now typically dated to about the same time as Gregory's ''Glory of the Confessors'', see Raymond Van Dam (ed., trans.), Volume 4 of Latin series, Translated Texts for Historians Series, Liverpool University Press, 1988p. 42, fn. 63 He is also mentioned by Gregory of Tours later in the 6th century, who refers to the earlier text, saying "a book that has already been written about his life narrates the bulk of his miracles". Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
