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Aldhelm, the prose works

translated by Michael Lapidge and Michael Herren

D. S. Brewer , Rowman & Littlefield, 1979

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注記

"Aldhelm bibliography": p. 22-27

Includes index

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内容説明

Aldhelm, born c.640 in Wessex, and becoming abbot of Malmesbury and later bishop of Sherborne, was the first English man of letters; up to 1100, his prose writings were the most widely read of any Latin literature produced in Anglo-Saxon England. His surviving prose works include a long treatise De virginitate, and a number of letters; these in particular are an important source of knowledge concerning Anglo-Saxon England. The treatise, a lengthy exhortation on virtue addressed to nuns at Barking Abbey, is a fascinating series of exempla drawn from the prodigious range of Aldhelm's knowledge of patristic literature, and tailored to the expectations of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon female audience. Because of the extreme difficulty of his Latin, however, Aldhelm's prose works have rarely been read, and have never been adequately appreciated - which this translation seeks to remedy. It is accompanied with an introduction outlining Aldhelm's central importance to Anglo-Saxon literary culture; a critical biography which throws new light on what has previously been assumed about him; and an essay establishing an accurate canon and chronology of his writings.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA1033129X
  • ISBN
    • 0859910415
  • LCCN
    79311356
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    lat
  • 出版地
    Cambridge [Eng.],Totowa, N.J.
  • ページ数/冊数
    vi, 210 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
  • 分類
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