Provence, France
Marseille is a Mediterranean port in Provence, southern France, and the country's second-largest city. Greek settlers from Phocaea founded it as Massalia around 600 BCE, and it kept its independence until a Roman siege in 49 BCE. In late antiquity it was a centre of Gallic monasticism: John Cassian founded the abbey of Saint-Victor there around 415, and the priest and writer Salvian spent his later years in the city. The medieval town had a Jewish community, recorded by the twelfth-century traveler Benjamin of Tudela; the philosopher-translator Samuel ibn Tibbon, known for his Hebrew version of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, settled there and died around 1230. Its Jewish community today is one of Europe's largest.
3 teachers · 12 most-discussed ideas
Marseille through the eras
Under Merovingian Frankish rule by 536, Marseille's Abbey of Saint-Victor — founded c. 415 by John Cassian — was one of the foremost centers of early Western monasticism; the Semi-Pelagian controversy that grew from Cassian's writings was officially condemned at the Second Council of Orange (529), held in the city of Orange some 100 km to the north in Provence, though the underlying debate persisted well beyond that council.
Teachers who lived here
John Cassian (360–435)
founder, abbot, author 415–435
Prosper of Aquitaine (390–463)
lay monk, controversialist 417–435
Salvian of Marseille (400–480)
presbyter, author 430
Benjamin of Tudela (1130–1175)
traveled 1166
Samuel ibn Tibbon (1150–1230)
died 1213–1230
Jacob Anatoli (1194–1256)
born 1194
André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836)
Works composed here
by John Cassian
by John Cassian
by John Cassian
by John Cassian
by John Cassian
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Marseille. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.