Author:Sylvester II

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Sylvester II
(?–1003)

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born Gerbert d'Aurillac; French scholar and teacher of Arab/Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy. Pope from 999 until his death in 1003, Sylvester II was accused of sorcery and making pacts with Satan; largely believed to have been rumors based on the fact he had spent his youth studying in Muslim Andalusia

Works

Mathematics

Ecclesiastical

Sermo de informatione episcoporum
De corpore et sanguine Domini
Selecta e concil. Basol., Remens., Masom., etc.
Unnamed Bull, March 27 1000

Letters

Epistolae ante summum pontificatum scriptae
Epistolae et decreta pontificia
Letter to Bishop Arnulf
Letter to Otto III (disputed authenticity)
Letter to Stephen of Hungary
First Letter to Queen Adelaide, 983[1]
Second Letter to Queen Adelaide, 997[2]
Letter to Boso, July 15 982

Other

Works about Sylvester II

"Silvester II," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Pope Sylvester II," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)

Gerbert, or Sylvestre II: First French Pope and the Century of Iron, 1868 by Constant Quéant [3]
Gerbert, Pope Silvester II, as it appeared in the 1834 Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin
Silvester II in the 1814 compilation General Biography
Works of Gerbert, Pope under the name of Sylvester II, 1867 by A. Olleris (original title Oeuvres de Gerbert, Pape sous le Nom de Sylvester II)
Chapter XXVI. Gerbert, as it appeared in the 1903 History of Philosophy by William Turner

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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