An 11th Century Philosophical Treatise Written in Banat and its Surprising Revelations about the Local History

Personality admired by Trithemius [1], 1, and Pelbartus of Themesvár [2], , eulogized by Pierre Nadal [3], and Nicolaus Olahus [4], , St. Gerard of Csanád remains beyond the character of his legend an author wrapped in mystery and uncertainty, with a biography closer to miracle than historical argument. Despite this vita fabulosa transmitted by Acta sanctorum [5], the author of Deliberatio supra hymnum trium puerorum (1044) has to tell us some interesting and valuable information about his contemporaneity. This essay tries to contextualise such autobiographical details in the medieval history of Banat, the region between the Mures, Tisza and the Danube River.