A002
Vita Dunstani Cantuarensis
Century: 11
Hagiography
Latin
Dioc. Tournai
County of Flanders
INCIPIT
Prologus: (ad.) Domino vere sancto Aelfego, sanctae Dorobernensis ecclesiae archiepiscopo, Adalardus sancti Blandiniensis coenobii exiguus famulus..-- (ep.) Patrem tuum sanctum Dunstanum voluisti et literis commendari et musis. Sed quoniam vel iussus parui, et indignus dignum, peccator sanctum, tangere praesumpsi, veniam humi...-- Corpus: Quia solemnibus excubiis transitum beati Dunstani colimus, quo eum ad Christum migrasse credimus, post eum fratres carissimi suspiremus, et ad Christum post...
EXPLICIT
...gloria coronatum, regnare praecepit. Qui cum coaeterno Patre et Spiritu Sancto vivit et regnat nunc et per immortalia saecula saeculorum. Amen. Laus Deo. Amen.
Sex: M- Bio: Monk of Saint Peters' abbey in Ghent (11th century).-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)
EDITING
Location:Probably Saint Peter's abbey in Ghent - Date:between 1006 and 1011 (Index Scriptorum) or before 1011 (DHGE) - Commission:commissioned by and dedicated to Elfegus, archbischop of Canterbury (1006-1012)
SIZE
3597 woorden (Index scriptorum)
CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Biography of St Dunstan, composed as 12 lectures. St Dunstan, abbot of Glastonbury since c. 940, escaped from king Edwy's fury and was granted asylum in St Peters abbey, Ghent. The year after Dunstan was already called back by king Edgar, and he was appointed bishop of Worcester and London. In 959 Dunstan became archbishop of Canterbury until his death in 988.
SOURCES
Vita Dunstani (Vita prima Sancti Dunstani)
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
STUBBS (W.), 'Memorials of Saint Dunstan archbishop of Canterbury', in: Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, 63 (Londen, 1874) 53-68
VAN LOKEREN (A.), Chartes et documents de l'abbaye S. Pierre au Mont Blandin, 1 (Gent, 1868) 71 (fragment)
WHARTON (H.), Anglia sacra, 2 (Londen, 1691) 148 (fragment)
LITERATURE
'Adalard, Moine à Gand, et autres écrivains', in: Histoire littéraire de la France, 7 (Paris, 1746) 228
(S.A.), 'Dunstan, St.', in: F.L. Cross, E.A. Livingstone, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (London/New York/Toronto, 1974 2de druk) 431-432
BERLIÈRE (U.), 'Adalard', in: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 1 (Paris, 1912) 428-429
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2343 Suppl. 2343
Bibliotheca sanctorum, 4 (L. Falkenstein, 1964) 869-871
CHEVALIER (U.), Répertoire des sources historiques du Moyen-age. Bio-bibliographie (Paris, 1877-1886. 1888 II) 26
DALES (D.), Dunstan. Saint and Statesman (Cambridge, 1988)
DEPLOIGE (J.), ‘Twisten via heiligen. Hagiografische dialogen tussen de Gentse abdijen van Sint-Pieters en Sint-Baafs, 941-1079’, in: Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent, 61 (2007) 31-82 (52-53)
DUCKETT (E.S.), St Dunstan of Canterbury. A Study of Monastic Reform in the Tenth Century (London, 1955)
FARMER (H.), 'Dunstan', in: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 14 (Paris, 1960) 1063-1068
HENNEBERT (F.), 'Adélard ou Adalard', in: Biographie Nationale, 1 (Brussel, 1866) 54-55
HILEY (D.), 'What St. Dunstan Heard the Angels Sing: Notes on a Pre-Conquest Historia', in: J. Szendei, ed. Laborare fratres in unum. Festschrift Laslo Dobszay. Spolia Berolinensia, 7 (Hildesheim, 1995) 105-115
HUNT (R.W.), Saint Dunstan's Classbook from Glastonbury, Umbrae Codicum Occidentalium, 4 (Amsterdam, 1961)
HUYGHEBAERT (N.), 'Sermo de Adventu sanctorum Wandregisili, Ansberti et Wulframni in monte Blandinium rite vocato', 2 (Leuven, 1975) 155
HUYGHEBAERT (N.), Une translation de reliques à Gand en 944: le Sermo de Adventu Sanctorum Wandregisili, Ansberti et Vulframni in Blandinium, ARB, CRH, Recueil de textes pour servir à l'étude de l'histoire de Belgique (Brussel, 1978)
Index scriptorum II 143;
KER (N.R.), 'Membra disiectae', in: British Museum Quarterly, 14 (1940) 83-85 (Cotton ms.)
KNOWLES (D.), The Monastic Order in England (Cambridge, 1949; 1963 2de druk) 31-56
Monasticon belge, VII/1 (Bruges and Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890-1993.) *91
PONTIFEX (D.), 'St. Dunstan in his First Biography', in: The Downside Review, 51 (1933) 20-40, 309-325
RAMSEY (N.), SPARKS (M.), TATTON-BROWN (T.), eds. St. Dunstan. His Life, Times and Cult (Woodbridge, 1992)
RAMSEY (N.), SPARKS (M.), The image of Saint Dunstan (Canterbury, 1988)
STUBBS (W.), Memorials of Saint Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, 63 (London, 1874; reprint: 1965) xxx-xxxi, xli-xlii, lx-lxii (vii-cxxiii)
TOKE (L.A.S.L.), 'Some Notes on the Accepted Date of St. Dunstan's Birth', in: F.A. Gasquet, E. Bishop, eds. The Bosworth Psalter (London, 1908) 131-143
VAN 'T SPIJKER (I.), 'Gallia du Nord et de l'Ouest 950-1350', in: Hagiographies, II (Turnhout, 1996) 264
WATTENBACH (W.), HOLTZMANN (R.), Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter. Deutsche Kaiserzeit (Berlin-Tübingen, 1938-1948, I/1) 117-118.
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Contributor:
Marit Gypen
Update:
2011-05-12 14:38:25