01 — Foundations

The seventh-century world into which the traditional St. Claudius is placed, and the flagship source-critical statement of why his biography is mostly legend. These two files set the terms for everything that follows: the well-documented context drawn boldly, the thin and legendary core drawn faintly and always labeled.

File	Description
frankish-burgundy-and-the-jura.md	Merovingian Burgundy, the metropolitan see of Besançon, the high forested Jura, and the Columbanian transformation of Burgundian monasticism — the documented setting
the-sources-problem.md	FLAGSHIP (§3.5): the Vita of Claudius is a twelfth-century composition; the historical Claudius is barely documented; the sources inventoried as dated artifacts; the dating disputes; the rules by which this collection writes

See Also

• 02 — The Jura Monastic Tradition — the founders and the monastery Claudius is said to have entered
• 03 — The Tradition of His Life — the traditional career, weighed for attestation
• Master README — the collection overview