The Adaptation of the Visio Sancti Pauli in the West: The Evidence of Redaction vi

This article examines the earliest surviving adaptation of the Long Latin Visio Sancti Pauli in the West with a view to shedding light on the context and milieu in which this text was transmitted and adapted. It is argued that the text points to transmission in an Hiberno-Frankish milieu in which the paenitentialia minora also circulated, together with an Insular collection of homilies. Based on the text as it stands in StG¹, Rhaetia or Northern Italy after 721 ad may be the likeliest place for the earliest reception and adaptation of the Visio Sancti Pauli.