. A biblical exegete and theologian during the reign of Louis the Pious, Claudius was born near Seo de Urguel and studied in the school of Felix, one of the theologians attacked by Alcuin as “Adoptionist,” before traveling to the classroom of Leidradus in Lyon. He also spent some years in the palace school at Aix-la-Chapelle, where he brought together catenae on earlier commentary on many books of the Bible, notably the Heptateuch (of which Deuteronomy and Numbers do not survive), Matthew, and the Pauline epistles. Most of these influential texts remain unedited. Claudius was appointed bishop of Turin by Louis the Pious ca. 818. Almost immediately, he began a war of words against the cult of relics he found flourishing in that city. His iconoclastic writings are perhaps of most interest, but these survive mainly in the writings of his opponents Sungal and Jonas of Orleans.
E. Ann Matter
[See also: ALCUIN; BIBLE, CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION OF; JONAS OF ORLEANS: LOUIS I THE PIOUS; THEOLOGY]
Claudius of Turin. Opera. PL 50, 104; MGHEp. 4.
Bellet, P. “Claudio de Turin, autor de los commentarios In Genesim et Regum del Pseudo Euquerio.” Estudios biblicos 9 (1950):209-23.
--. “El Liber de imaginibus sanctorum, bajo el nombre de Agobardo de Lyon, obra de Claudio
De Turin.” Analecta sacra Tarraconensia 26(1953):151-94.
Italiani, Giuliana. La tradizione esegetica nel Commento ai Re di Claudio di Torino. Florence: Cooperativa Editrice Universitaria, 1979.
Souter, Alexander. The Earliest Latin Commentaries on the Epistles ofSt. Paul Oxford: Clarendon, 1927.
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