Overview
This volume contains comprehensive and scholarly editions of three Anglo-Saxon saints' lives: Birinus of Dorchester-on-Thames, Kenelm of Winchcombe, and Rumwold of Buckingham. Rosalind Love provides the Latin texts, based on all known manuscript versions, with a facing-page English translation, together with full annotation and a historical introduction which sets these works in the context of the development of hagiographical literature. Dr Love traces the growth and changes in hagiographical writing, one of the most important genres of medieval literature and essential to the understanding of the religious mentality of the Middle Ages, and shows how the eleventh century saw significant new directions emerge in the cult of the saints and the writing of saints' lives.
Full Product Details
Author: Rosalind C. Love (British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.30cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.554kg
ISBN: 9780198205241
ISBN 10: 0198205244
Pages: 340
Publication Date: 04 January 1996
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Language: English & Latin
Reviews
<br> This book is an engaging, extremely well documented account of how post-WWI modernism begins with a desire for collaboration between black and white writers. --Robert Butler, Canisius College<br> Love has done a truly magnificent job in preparing the edition. It makes a major contribution to Anglo-Latin hagiography. --Speculum<br>. ..this is a superb piece of scholarship, as well as one which it seems fair to characterize, in an entirely positive sense, as high-spirited. Seldom, in this reviewer's experience, has such a learned work been so enjoyable to read.--The Medieval Review<br>
This book is an engaging, extremely well documented account of how post-WWI modernism begins with a desire for collaboration between black and white writers. --Robert Butler, Canisius College<br> Love has done a truly magnificent job in preparing the edition. It makes a major contribution to Anglo-Latin hagiography. --Speculum<br> .,. this is a superb piece of scholarship, as well as one which it seems fair to characterize, in an entirely positive sense, as high-spirited. Seldom, in this reviewer's experience, has such a learned work been so enjoyable to read.--The Medieval Review<br>
This book is an engaging, extremely well documented account of how post-WWI modernism begins with a desire for collaboration between black and white writers. --Robert Butler, Canisius College Love has done a truly magnificent job in preparing the edition. It makes a major contribution to Anglo-Latin hagiography. --Speculum. ..this is a superb piece of scholarship, as well as one which it seems fair to characterize, in an entirely positive sense, as high-spirited. Seldom, in this reviewer's experience, has such a learned work been so enjoyable to read.--The Medieval Review
should be warmly welcomed ... The texts are edited to an exemplary standard from all known manuscripts, translated and copiously annotated. The style, latinity and sources of the Vitae, and the liturgical cults of the three saints, are fully discussed ... For making this important and under-studied material available, and setting a model for others to follow, we are much in Love's debt. * John Blair, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
