Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Consolation of Philosophy, Historia Brittonum, Etymologiae, Vita Sancti Cuthberti, Getica, Cambrai Homily, De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, Alexander romance, Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, Foebus abierat, Prebiarum de multorum exemplaribus, Vita Karoli Magni, Collectio canonum Hibernensis, Cena Cypriani, Liber Scintillarum, Romana, Bobbio Scholiast, Commentary on Job, De Dubiis Nominibus. Excerpt: The Vita Sancti Cuthberti (English: "Life of Saint Cuthbert") is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria. It is probably the earliest extant saint's life from Anglo-Saxon England, and is an account of the life and miracles of Cuthbert (died 687), a Bernician hermit-monk who became bishop of Lindisfarne. Surviving in eight manuscripts from Continental Europe, it was not as well read in the Middle Ages as the prose version by Bede. It was however Bede's main source for his two dedicated works on Cuthbert, the "Metrical Life" and the "Prose Life." It was completed soon after the translation of Cuthbert's body in 698, at some point between 699 and 705. Compiled from oral sources available in Bernicia at the time of its composition, the Vita nonetheless utilized previous Christian writing from the Continent, particularly Gregory the Great's Dialogi and Sulpicius Severus' Vita Sancti Martini, as powerful influences. The name of the author is not known, though he was a monk of the monastery of Lindisfarne. It is often called the Anonymous Life to distinguish it from the "Prose Life" and the "Metrical Life" of Bede. There are four modern editions of the Anonymous Life, the latest by historian Bertram Colgrave. AElfflaed of Whitby, sister of the king, meeting Cuthbert on Coquet Island; from British Library Yates Thomson MS 26 version of Bede's Prose Life, prophecy is in the Anonymous Life at iii.6Written just after or possibl.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Early Medieval Latin Literature: Consolation of Philosophy, Historia Brittonum, Etymologiae, Vita Sancti Cuthberti, Getica, Cambrai Homily. To get started finding Early Medieval Latin Literature: Consolation of Philosophy, Historia Brittonum, Etymologiae, Vita Sancti Cuthberti, Getica, Cambrai Homily, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Early Medieval Latin Literature: Consolation of Philosophy, Historia Brittonum, Etymologiae, Vita Sancti Cuthberti, Getica, Cambrai Homily
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Consolation of Philosophy, Historia Brittonum, Etymologiae, Vita Sancti Cuthberti, Getica, Cambrai Homily, De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, Alexander romance, Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, Foebus abierat, Prebiarum de multorum exemplaribus, Vita Karoli Magni, Collectio canonum Hibernensis, Cena Cypriani, Liber Scintillarum, Romana, Bobbio Scholiast, Commentary on Job, De Dubiis Nominibus. Excerpt: The Vita Sancti Cuthberti (English: "Life of Saint Cuthbert") is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria. It is probably the earliest extant saint's life from Anglo-Saxon England, and is an account of the life and miracles of Cuthbert (died 687), a Bernician hermit-monk who became bishop of Lindisfarne. Surviving in eight manuscripts from Continental Europe, it was not as well read in the Middle Ages as the prose version by Bede. It was however Bede's main source for his two dedicated works on Cuthbert, the "Metrical Life" and the "Prose Life." It was completed soon after the translation of Cuthbert's body in 698, at some point between 699 and 705. Compiled from oral sources available in Bernicia at the time of its composition, the Vita nonetheless utilized previous Christian writing from the Continent, particularly Gregory the Great's Dialogi and Sulpicius Severus' Vita Sancti Martini, as powerful influences. The name of the author is not known, though he was a monk of the monastery of Lindisfarne. It is often called the Anonymous Life to distinguish it from the "Prose Life" and the "Metrical Life" of Bede. There are four modern editions of the Anonymous Life, the latest by historian Bertram Colgrave. AElfflaed of Whitby, sister of the king, meeting Cuthbert on Coquet Island; from British Library Yates Thomson MS 26 version of Bede's Prose Life, prophecy is in the Anonymous Life at iii.6Written just after or possibl.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Early Medieval Latin Literature: Consolation of Philosophy, Historia Brittonum, Etymologiae, Vita Sancti Cuthberti, Getica, Cambrai Homily. To get started finding Early Medieval Latin Literature: Consolation of Philosophy, Historia Brittonum, Etymologiae, Vita Sancti Cuthberti, Getica, Cambrai Homily, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.