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

by Love, Rosalind C.

• ISBN13: 9780198205241
• ISBN10: 0198205244
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Eleventh-Century Anglo-Latin Hagiography and the Rise of the Legendary
St Birinus of Dorchester-on-Thames and Vita Sancti Birini
St Kenelm of Winchcombe and Vita Et Miracvla Sancti Kenelmi
St Rumwold of Buckingham and Vita Sancti Rvmwoldi
Editorial Procedures
Vita Sancti Birini	p. 1
Vita Et Miracvla Sancti Kenelmi	p. 49
Vita Sancti Rvmwoldi	p. 91
App. A. Portions omitted by B and F	p. 117
App. B. Homily for the Feast of St Birinus	p. 119
App. C. The account of the fire at Winchcombe	p. 123
App. D. Vita brevior S. Kenelmi	p. 126
App. E. The Valenciennes Office for the Feast of St Kenelm	p. 130
App. F. The Baptism of St Rumwold	p. 135
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