Three Eleventh-Century Anglo-Latin Saints' Lives: Vita S. Birini, Vita Et Miracula S. Kenelmi and Vita S. Rumwoldi

ISBN-13: 9780198205241 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 344 str.

Rosalind C. Love

Opis

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. Love traces the growth and changes in hagiograhical 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.

Recenzje

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.