Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- I.33 A Layman Grants Land to His Son-in-Law, Who Sells It to the Bishop ofSelsey for Silver and a Horse
- I.34 The Monastic Agreement of the Monks and Nuns of the English Nation(Regularis concordia)
- I.35 Literary Texts Associated with St Swithun
- I.36 Æthelweard, Chronicle
- I.37 A Treaty between King Æthelred II (‘the Unready’) and Three VikingLeaders
- I.38 Ælfric of Eynsham, Preface to the First Series of CatholicHomilies
- I.39 Ælfric of Eynsham and His School, Educational Writings
- I.40 Saints’ Lives from around the Millennium
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
I.35 - Literary Texts Associated with St Swithun
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- I.33 A Layman Grants Land to His Son-in-Law, Who Sells It to the Bishop ofSelsey for Silver and a Horse
- I.34 The Monastic Agreement of the Monks and Nuns of the English Nation(Regularis concordia)
- I.35 Literary Texts Associated with St Swithun
- I.36 Æthelweard, Chronicle
- I.37 A Treaty between King Æthelred II (‘the Unready’) and Three VikingLeaders
- I.38 Ælfric of Eynsham, Preface to the First Series of CatholicHomilies
- I.39 Ælfric of Eynsham and His School, Educational Writings
- I.40 Saints’ Lives from around the Millennium
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
The theme of this section is St. Swithun of Winchester, a ninth-century saint. Here excerpts are given from a prose Life by Lantfred in the tenth century and a slightly later hexameter poem of 3386 lines produced by Wulfstan of Winchester, as a verse version of Lantfred’s work. Little work has been done on these texts, outside the edition of Michael Lapidge. The story chosen for both excerpts is of the slave girl who is miraculously taken to Swithun’s tomb. Lastly, a short sequence (or ‘prose’) about Swithun and Birinus is given, an example of this important early medieval genre of mirroring lines, used in the liturgy.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 375 - 385Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024