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Research paper thumbnail of Bede and John Chrysostom

The Journal of Medieval Latin, 2007

... 6 See Rachel Skalitzky, “Annianus of Celeda: His Text of Chrysostom's 'Homilies on ... more ... 6 See Rachel Skalitzky, “Annianus of Celeda: His Text of Chrysostom's 'Homilies on Matthew,'” Aevum 45 (1971), 208–33; a helpful summary of the ... Wearmouth-Jarrow was once described as having had “one of the best libraries in England in the eighth century.”14 In his classic ...

Research paper thumbnail of Earl Godwine's ship

Anglo-Saxon England, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of ‘“Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!” Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Depiction of Female Sanctity’ in Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Paul E. Szarmach (Toronto, 2013), pp. 274-306

at a conservative estimate we can muster the names of some forty female saints from anglo-Saxon e... more at a conservative estimate we can muster the names of some forty female saints from anglo-Saxon england, but it is remarkable that not only do many of them crowd into the seventh century or so, but also, in the majority of cases, the earliest surviving attempt to provide a written account of their claim to sanctity -a hagiography -dates from the eleventh century or later. 1 that period was in any case the most productive for latin hagiography in england, and it was most definitely so for the hagiography of female saints. 2 Some theories have been advanced to account for the new and powerful impulse towards the composition of lives in latin, both in terms of some local hesitation about putting into writing the legends of the home-grown holy men and women of england, and also -to view the matter from the other side -with an eye to the need for some degree of cultural assimilation, or the desire on the part of individual communities to assert control over relics and cult, and thereby over territory, in the second half of the century and beyond. 3 my concern in this chapter is less with tackling those possibly unanswerable questions than with considering how those women were presented when they did finally emerge into the literature. in most cases it is beyond recovery to determine the historical reality of their lives, but then anybody who deals with hagiography 12 "torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!" goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the depiction of female Sanctity Rosalind Love 1 Pulsiano provided an excellent preliminary survey of these saints and their hagiographies in "Blessed Bodies." 2 for a survey of latin hagiography in england throughout the anglo-Saxon period and beyond, see lapidge and love, "the latin Hagiography of england and Wales." 3 the anglo-Saxons' disinclination to write up their saints was explored by fell, "edward, King and martyr"; on the norman point of view see ridyard, "Condigna Veneratio," and more recently Hayward, "translation-narratives in Post-Conquest Hagiography." Szarmach_ID4133.indd 274 2013-05-01 15:21:47 4 Upchurch, AElfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses; cf. also donovan, Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose; magennis, The Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt. 5 Schulenberg, Forgetful of Their Sex; Wogan-Browne, Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture; lees and overing, Double Agents. 6 BHL 5960; rollason, The Mildrith Legend, 108-43; on the dating see Sharpe, "goscelin's St augustine and St mildreth. 7 frank Barlow provided a biography of goscelin as appendix C to his edition, The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster, 133-49; for a more recent account see Hollis, "goscelin's Writings and the Wilton Women," in Hollis et al., Writing the Wilton Women, 217-44. 8 Barlow provided a list of well-attested and attributed works (Life of King Edward, 146-9); see also lapidge and love, "latin Hagiography," 225-33. the most recent addition to the canon of his works is a Vita of eadwold of Cerne; see licence, "goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the life of St. eadwold of Cerne." 9 rollason, Mildrith Legend, 112-5. 10 ibid., 120-1. all translations provided in this chapter are my own, unless otherwise credited. 11 ibid., 120: "genere et rebus potens … litterisque eruditissima." Szarmach_ID4133.indd 276 2013-05-01 15:21:47

Research paper thumbnail of The Latin Commentaries on Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae from the 9th to the 11th Centuries', in The Brill Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, ed. P. Phillips and N.H. Kaylor (Leiden, 2012), pp. 75-133

The reception of Boethius and his De consolatione philosophiae in the Middle Ages is handled else... more The reception of Boethius and his De consolatione philosophiae in the Middle Ages is handled elsewhere in this volume, and consequently the present chapter focuses very precisely on the manuscripts dateable from the period up to around the year 1100 which transmit commentary and glosses on the Consolatio in Latin, in order to ask what can be recovered about their complex relationships, to survey the variety of content these scholia cover, and to summarise scholarly debate concerning the authors and centres which have been connected with the commentary tradition. 1

Research paper thumbnail of The Library of the Venerable Bede, in The History of the Book in Britain, vol. I, ed. R. Gameson (Cambridge, 2011), pp. 606-32

Research paper thumbnail of The World of Latin Learning, in The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. S. DeGregorio (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 40-53

Research paper thumbnail of 'Bede and John Chrysostom', Journal of Medieval Latin 17 (2007), pp. 72-86

Research paper thumbnail of '“Et quis me tanto oneri parem faciet?” Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Life of St Amelberga', in Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge , ed. K. O’Brien O’Keeffe and A.P.M. Orchard, 2 vols. (Toronto, 2005), II, pp.232-52

Research paper thumbnail of 'The Life of St Wulfsige of Sherborne by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, in St Wulfsige and Sherborne. Essays to Celebrate the Millennium of the Benedictine Abbey, 998-1998, ed. K. Barker, D.A. Hinton and A. Hunt (Oxford , 2005), pp. 98-123

Research paper thumbnail of Bede and John Chrysostom

The Journal of Medieval Latin, 2007

... 6 See Rachel Skalitzky, “Annianus of Celeda: His Text of Chrysostom's 'Homilies on ... more ... 6 See Rachel Skalitzky, “Annianus of Celeda: His Text of Chrysostom's 'Homilies on Matthew,'” Aevum 45 (1971), 208–33; a helpful summary of the ... Wearmouth-Jarrow was once described as having had “one of the best libraries in England in the eighth century.”14 In his classic ...

Research paper thumbnail of Earl Godwine's ship

Anglo-Saxon England, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of ‘“Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!” Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Depiction of Female Sanctity’ in Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Paul E. Szarmach (Toronto, 2013), pp. 274-306

at a conservative estimate we can muster the names of some forty female saints from anglo-Saxon e... more at a conservative estimate we can muster the names of some forty female saints from anglo-Saxon england, but it is remarkable that not only do many of them crowd into the seventh century or so, but also, in the majority of cases, the earliest surviving attempt to provide a written account of their claim to sanctity -a hagiography -dates from the eleventh century or later. 1 that period was in any case the most productive for latin hagiography in england, and it was most definitely so for the hagiography of female saints. 2 Some theories have been advanced to account for the new and powerful impulse towards the composition of lives in latin, both in terms of some local hesitation about putting into writing the legends of the home-grown holy men and women of england, and also -to view the matter from the other side -with an eye to the need for some degree of cultural assimilation, or the desire on the part of individual communities to assert control over relics and cult, and thereby over territory, in the second half of the century and beyond. 3 my concern in this chapter is less with tackling those possibly unanswerable questions than with considering how those women were presented when they did finally emerge into the literature. in most cases it is beyond recovery to determine the historical reality of their lives, but then anybody who deals with hagiography 12 "torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!" goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the depiction of female Sanctity Rosalind Love 1 Pulsiano provided an excellent preliminary survey of these saints and their hagiographies in "Blessed Bodies." 2 for a survey of latin hagiography in england throughout the anglo-Saxon period and beyond, see lapidge and love, "the latin Hagiography of england and Wales." 3 the anglo-Saxons' disinclination to write up their saints was explored by fell, "edward, King and martyr"; on the norman point of view see ridyard, "Condigna Veneratio," and more recently Hayward, "translation-narratives in Post-Conquest Hagiography." Szarmach_ID4133.indd 274 2013-05-01 15:21:47 4 Upchurch, AElfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses; cf. also donovan, Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose; magennis, The Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt. 5 Schulenberg, Forgetful of Their Sex; Wogan-Browne, Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture; lees and overing, Double Agents. 6 BHL 5960; rollason, The Mildrith Legend, 108-43; on the dating see Sharpe, "goscelin's St augustine and St mildreth. 7 frank Barlow provided a biography of goscelin as appendix C to his edition, The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster, 133-49; for a more recent account see Hollis, "goscelin's Writings and the Wilton Women," in Hollis et al., Writing the Wilton Women, 217-44. 8 Barlow provided a list of well-attested and attributed works (Life of King Edward, 146-9); see also lapidge and love, "latin Hagiography," 225-33. the most recent addition to the canon of his works is a Vita of eadwold of Cerne; see licence, "goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the life of St. eadwold of Cerne." 9 rollason, Mildrith Legend, 112-5. 10 ibid., 120-1. all translations provided in this chapter are my own, unless otherwise credited. 11 ibid., 120: "genere et rebus potens … litterisque eruditissima." Szarmach_ID4133.indd 276 2013-05-01 15:21:47

Research paper thumbnail of The Latin Commentaries on Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae from the 9th to the 11th Centuries', in The Brill Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, ed. P. Phillips and N.H. Kaylor (Leiden, 2012), pp. 75-133

The reception of Boethius and his De consolatione philosophiae in the Middle Ages is handled else... more The reception of Boethius and his De consolatione philosophiae in the Middle Ages is handled elsewhere in this volume, and consequently the present chapter focuses very precisely on the manuscripts dateable from the period up to around the year 1100 which transmit commentary and glosses on the Consolatio in Latin, in order to ask what can be recovered about their complex relationships, to survey the variety of content these scholia cover, and to summarise scholarly debate concerning the authors and centres which have been connected with the commentary tradition. 1

Research paper thumbnail of The Library of the Venerable Bede, in The History of the Book in Britain, vol. I, ed. R. Gameson (Cambridge, 2011), pp. 606-32

Research paper thumbnail of The World of Latin Learning, in The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. S. DeGregorio (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 40-53

Research paper thumbnail of 'Bede and John Chrysostom', Journal of Medieval Latin 17 (2007), pp. 72-86

Research paper thumbnail of '“Et quis me tanto oneri parem faciet?” Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Life of St Amelberga', in Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge , ed. K. O’Brien O’Keeffe and A.P.M. Orchard, 2 vols. (Toronto, 2005), II, pp.232-52

Research paper thumbnail of 'The Life of St Wulfsige of Sherborne by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, in St Wulfsige and Sherborne. Essays to Celebrate the Millennium of the Benedictine Abbey, 998-1998, ed. K. Barker, D.A. Hinton and A. Hunt (Oxford , 2005), pp. 98-123