Anglo-Saxon monastery
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Eleventh century
English translation
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Historia de Sancto Cuthberto
Northumbria
Patron saint
St Cuthbert's patrimony
Tenth century
Product details
- ISBN 9780859916271
- Weight: 346g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 2001
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First English translation, with new edition, of a crucial text.
While it retains many of the trappings of a traditional saint's life, the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto is also a remarkable record of the political activities and property acquisitions of a powerful Anglo-Saxon monastery, and it vividly demonstrates the ongoing relationship between the monks and their patron saint. Written in Northumbria in the tenth or eleventh century, the Historia presents a striking contrast with earlier lives of Cuthbertsuch as Bede's, and is a valuable teaching text.
The present edition is the first to make use of all three surviving manuscripts of the Historia, and is also the first English translation of this brief but importanttext. It includes a reassessment of the text's purpose and date, a detailed historical commentary, excerpts of related texts, and a discussion of the patrimony of St Cuthbert, including maps of estates and a catalogue of the morethan one hundred vills listed in the text.
TED JOHNSON SOUTH is Associate Professor of History, Western New England College.
