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Goscelin of Saint-Bertin : the hagiography of the female saints of Ely / edited and translated by Rosalind C. Love.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goscelin, of Saint-Bertin, approximately 1035-approximately 1107.
- Series:
- Oxford medieval texts.
- Oxford scholarly editions online.
- Oxford medieval texts The hagiography of the female saints of Ely
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian hagiography--Early works to 1800.
- Christian hagiography.
- Christian women saints--England--Ely--Early works to 1800.
- Christian women saints.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (cxxviii, 230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- Parallel Latin and English text.
- Summary:
- From the 10th century, the monastic community at Ely venerated a group of female saints. This text offers a fascinating insight into Ely's view of the women venerated by the community and of its own past history.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction; Texts and Translations; Appendices; Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-187755-7
- 1-280-84697-6
- 0-19-151340-7
- OCLC:
- 1027143626
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