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Wetti of Reichenau (; c 775–824) was a Benedictine monk, scholar and educator at the monastery at Reichenau in modern-day Germany. He was one of the leading educators of his time, and an influential scholar among monks and laity throughout not only the Carolingian empire but also the Western European monastic community. His best known surviving work is his biography of Saint Gallus, the founder of Reichenau's sister monastery, St Gall. Wetti is best known for the visions of heaven and hell he had shortly before his death in about November 4, 824, which were recorded in Latin (''Visio Wettini'') by Heito, former abbot of Reichenau, in 824 and by Wetti's disciple Walahfrid Strabo in 827. Walahfrid's version, in verse, reveals far more about Wetti's visions than Heito's does, leveling more detailed accusations of greed and sexual misconduct against monks, government and church officials – cautiously edited or omitted by Heito – even acrostically naming Charlemagne when he appears in purgatory. An example of dream literature, the ''Vision of Wetti'' reflects Carolingian afterlife conceptions of punishment and salvation; it was widely read throughout contemporary monastic communities and is generally considered one of the influences on Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. ==Early life and monastic career== Wetti was born in the 780s to a noble family. He was educated in both the classical tradition of the seven liberal arts 〔Pollard, R. (trans). ''Walahfrid Strabo. Visio Wettini''. l. 176-7〕 and Irish monasticism at the Benedictine abbey of Reichenau, founded in 724 by the Irish monk Pirmin. He was apparently an "innocent boy" and a rebellious teenager before he settled down to teach at Reichenau's convent school.〔Pollard, R. (trans). ''Walahfrid Strabo. Visio Wettini''l. 690-2〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/repPers_10315700X.html )〕 Wetti officiated as master of the Reichenau monastery school for at least twenty years, training generations of monastic students; by all accounts, his students saw him as the ideal of monastic piety.〔Borst (1996), p. 220〕 Wetti's peers, furthermore, recognized him as Reichenau's "outstanding intellectual", which is "all the more impressive because (eighth and ninth centuries were ) Reichenau's golden age as a center of learning", a time in which Wetti, his reputation, authority, and opinions would have "had the power to lead (or mislead) not only his students but all of the monks."〔Kay (2011), p. 298〕 Wetti also produced several written works, the best known of those that survive being his biography of Saint Gall, the founder of Reichenau's sister monastery, St Gall. ''Life of Saint Gall'' is divided into two books. The first book, dated to the early ninth century, briefly describes him as a studious, pious child, who in all likelihood "had been 'commended' to Columbanus at his parent's instigation"〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/repOpus_04607.html )〕 – ''commended'' in this sense denotes that Gall would have been entrusted to Columbanus, and does not suggest that he underwent the oblation rituals which became more common in the early ninth century.〔De Jong (1996), pp. 193–5〕 The second book is dated to the early 820s and was later redrafted by Walahfrid Strabo. It provides a more detailed account of the saint's work in establishing the monastery of St Gall, his later life, death, and the miracles around his grave until the end of the eighth century.〔〔Borst (1996), p. 21〕 While these biographies are the best known of Wetti's surviving work, he might have produced a larger body of work, although evidence to substantiate this is lacking. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wetti of Reichenau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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