The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 25) - Softcover

Gretsch, Mechthild

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521030528 ISBN 13: 9780521030526

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in late-tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by Ęthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, of his influential school. The early stages of Ęthelwold's scholarly career are explored and new light is shed on the role which King Ęthelstan's cosmopolitan court played. Two widely influential Old English texts are definitively attributed to Ęthelwold and his circle, which attest to the importance that the reformers attached to the vernacular.

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Review:

"Gretsch shows that two other glosses can be attributed to Aethelwold and his circle: a continuous interlinear version of the Psalter preserved in London and a corpus of interlinearand marginal glosses to Aldhelm's De Virginitate preserved in Brussels." Theology Digest

"This fine and painstaking study of Ęthelwold's literary and lexical production is an excellent example of the precept that God is in the details...this study significantly advances the scholarship of late Anglo-Saxon England and serves as a fitting tribute to the rigorous scholarhsip of a teacher such as Ęthelwold." Journal of Religion

"...richly detailed and densely argued...a study strong and clear in the unfolding of its specifics...Gretsch has illuminated the late-tenth-century cultural milieu by her careful research into its bilingual relations. She has herself constructed a foundation for new directions in the field." Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521030528
• ISBN 13: 9780521030526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 484