Three Eleventh-Century Anglo-Latin Saints' Lives: Vita S. Birini, Vita et Miracula S. Kenelmi and Vita S. Rumwoldi (Oxford Medieval Texts) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198205244 ISBN 13: 9780198205241

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Rosalind C. Love is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Latin (translation)
Original Language: Latin

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0198205244
• ISBN 13: 9780198205241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344