Citation

Wasilewski J. Early Medieval Europe 2008; 16(3): 333-353.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1468-0254.2008.00233.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Eulogius of Córdoba, the principal recorder of the ninth-century Córdoban martyrs’ movement, copied for posterity a polemic biography of the Prophet Muhammad. The lost original is the earliest such text known in Latin, despite the longstanding tradition of anti-Islamic polemic in the Greek east. However, textual analysis indicates that Eulogius revised the original biography, and that his revisions were influenced by the polemic of John of Damascus. Eulogius's exposure to John's writings probably came through personal contact with a monk from the monastery of Mar Saba, contact which offers rare evidence of a non-textual transmission of ideas.