William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives
Lives of ss. Wulfstan, Dunstan, Patrick, Benignus and Indract
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 July 2002
- ISBN 9780198207092
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages436 pages
- Size 224x146x30 mm
- Weight 663 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
William of Malmesbury (c.1090-c.1143) is one of the most distinguished historians of England. He also wrote Lives of saints: of Wulfstan II of Worcester, Dunstan of Canterbury, Patrick, and the more obscure Benignus and Indract, honoured at Glastonbury. This volume contains editions and translations of all these works, with an assessment of their importance as sources of information, and of William as researcher and writer.
MoreLong description:
This volume presents the hagiographical writings of the Benedictine monk, historian, and scholar, William of Malmesbury (c.1095-c.1143): his Lives of Wulfstan and Dunstan, which survive complete, and those of Patrick, Benignus, and Indract, which exist now only as fragments. Only the Life of Wulfstan has been translated before; the fragments are edited here for the first time, and for the first time an assessment is offered of William as hagiographer, and of the relationship between his historical and hagiographical output. For Wulfstan II, bishop of Worcester 1062-95, William's Life is the main primary source. The other Lives, written for the monks of Glastonbury, shed important light on William's use of his sources, and on the local cult of these saints.
The publication of this volume is to be welcomed as a major advance in the study of one of the most significant of medieval authors.
