Anonymus Leidensis
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Anonymus Leidensis
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Anonymus Leidensis is the conventional designation of the anonymous author of the 9th-century Latin geographical treatise De situ orbis. It was written between 856 and 870, its title borrowed from a classical work of Pomponius Mela. The Anonymus was a monk teaching in a monastic school in the Carolingian Empire. He claims to be writing at the request of his fellow monks and his students, who wanted a better understanding of the recent Viking raids that penetrated the interior of Gaul from the Me
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