Provence, France
Marseille (Marseilles), a Mediterranean port in Provence, southern France, had a medieval Jewish community. The philosopher and translator Rabbi Samuel ibn Tibbon, famed for his Hebrew translation of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, settled in Marseille around 1211 and died there about 1232; the twelfth-century traveler Benjamin of Tudela also recorded the city's community.
2 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
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.