The life of St. Æthelwold
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The life of St. Æthelwold
（Oxford medieval texts）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c1991
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Life of St. Aethelwold
Wulfstan of Winchester's The life of St Æthelwold
Vita S. Æthelwoldi
Life of Saint Aethelwold
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Latin text and English translation of: The life of St. Aethelwold
"The first critical edition of Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita S. Æthelwoldi"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: i. Wulfstan of Winchester
- ii. AEthelwold, Wulfstan, and the Vita
- iii. Wulfstan as hagiographer
- iv. The cult of St AEthelwold
- v. Later uses of the Vita
- vi. Manuscripts of the Vita
- vii. Indirect witnesses to the Vita
- viii. Relationship of MSS and indirect witnesses
- ix. Previous editions
- x. Editorial procedures
- The life of St AEthelwold
- Appendix I: Aelfric. Vita S. AEthelwoldi
- Appendix II: Poems on St AEthelwold
- Appendix III: The Middle English 'Life of Adelwolde'
- Index
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