Overview
The Life of St AEthelwold is one of the most important and interesting sources for the history of Anglo-Saxon England and for the religious movements of western Europe in the tenth century. It was written around the year 1000 by Wulfstan of Winchester, who had been a student of AEthelwold; the Life, therefore, provides a firsthand account of the activities of the man who was the central force in the Benedictine reform movement of the later tenth century. It also reveals the nature of AEthelwold's education and contacts with continental monasticism, and shows why Winchester became a focal point of late Anglo-Saxon culture. The present book, by two well-known authorities in the field of Anglo-Latin literature, provides the first critical edition of Wulfstan's Life. It is accompanied by a translation, extensive historical notes, and a substantial introduction which treats both Wulfstan and Aethelwold in the light of recent scholarly research. Appendices provide editions of other texts relevant to the study of AEthelwold, including a Latin Life by his pupil AElfric, some verses by a twelfth-century Ely poet, and a previously unprinted Middle English poem on the saint. This is a valuable edition of a major source, which will be welcomed by all students of Anglo-Saxon England.
Full Product Details
Author: Wulfstan of Winchester ,
Michael Lapidge (Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Cambridge) ,
Michael Winterbottom (Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.30cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.20cm
Weight: 0.515kg
ISBN: 9780198222668
ISBN 10: 0198222661
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 15 August 1991
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Language: Latin & English.
Reviews
<br> It is the range of matters considered in the introduction and the thoroughness with which they are discussed which make this volume invaluable....The present work both provides a large missing piece to our knowledge of the monastic revival and gives new meaning to the adjective 'exhaustive'. --Church History<br>
It is the range of matters considered in the introduction and the thoroughness with which they are discussed which make this volume invaluable....The present work both provides a large missing piece to our knowledge of the monastic revival and gives new meaning to the adjective 'exhaustive'. --Church History<br>
