Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | A passage in Saint Gudule's Vita prima, written around 1100 from a first Vita that is no longer to be found today, mentions Gudule's burial in front of the domanial church in Hamme, then the profanation and the plundering of her grave. This passage prompts us to enquire into the profanation of graves in Merovingian times and the penalties provided against the plunderers. A critical examination suggests that this original passage, particularly well informed, may come from the lost Vita; this would also permit to rehabilitate the historicity of Cambrai's bishop Emebert in the second quarter of the vnth century. |
