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GOSCELIN OF SAINT-BERTIN: THE HAGIOGRAPHY OF THE FEMALE SAINTS OF ELY
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| By: |
Rosalind Love (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£185.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198208154 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198208150 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 February, 2004 |
| Series: |
Oxford Medieval Texts |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
From the tenth century, the monastic community at Ely venerated a group of female saints: AEthelthryth, its founding patroness, who died in 679, supposedly a virgin despite two marriages; her sister Seaxburh; another supposed sister Wihtburh, whose remains had been stolen by the monks of Ely from her tomb in Norfolk; Seaxburgh's daughter Eormenhild; and Eormenhild's daughter Waerburh. This is the first edition and translation of the Lives of thesesaints. |
| Synopsis: |
Goscelin, monk of Saint-Bertin, who came to England in the early 1060s, was one of the most prolific hagiographers of the Anglo-Saxon saints. William of Malmesbury described him as 'second to none since Bede in the celebration of the English saints'. Part of his career was spent in wandering exile, and one of the places Goscelin stayed briefly was Ely, who twelfth-century house-history portrays him working late at night on verses commemorating Ely's patroness, St Aethelfryth. By the late tenth century, the cult of Aethelfryth, the seventh-century virgin-queen whose two unconsummated marriages were recounted in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, had been combined with that of her sister Seaxburh, and of another supposed sister, Wihtburh (whose relics were 'translated' from East Dereham in Norfolk to Ely in 974). To this group were added Seaxburh's daughter Eormenhild, and Eormenhild's daughter Waerburh. A collection of the Lives of these female saints - some probably the work of Goscelin - is preserved in three twelfth-century Ely manuscripts.Taken together these texts offer a fascinating insight into Ely's view of the women venerated by the community and of its own past history. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists |
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Non-returnable |
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