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Vita sancti Augustini Cantuariensis. Historia minor

Century: 11

Hagiography

Latin

England

INCIPIT

Prologus: Omnibus piis... Quae de ipsius primi Anglorum institutoris Augustini vita et signis venerabilis Bedae depromit historia, quaeque ab ipso praetermissa in aliis...-- Corpus: Fortem armatum cuius atrium, mundus; cujus firmamentum, regna terrarum; cujus praeda, genus humanum: noster armatus in nostra etiam infirmate...

EXPLICIT

...et unum cubiculum simul confovet, et astringit! Qui si distinguerentur per diversas mundi nationes, singuli patroni singulis populis solariter praelucerent.

Goscelinus Sancti Bertini

Sex: M- Bio: monk of Saint Bertin's, 1058 or shortly after he followed bishop Hereman of Wiltshire (+1078) to England and was presumably monk in the monastery of Sherborne, stayed in several other monasteries (e.g.abbey of Canterbury), probably chaplain of the nuns of Wilton; +after 1106 (see Liebermann).-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

EDITING

Location:Abbey of Canterbury - Date:after 1091, c.1094 (Barlow 1992) - Commission: /

SIZE

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Life of St Augustine of Canterbury.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 312
London, British Library, Cotton mss., Vespasianus B XX
London, British Library, Lambeth, 159

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

DACHERIUS (L.), B. Lanfranci... opera (Parijs, 1648) app. 57-67
MIGNE (J.-P.), Patrologia latina CL (1854) 743-764 (Link) (Link)
WHARTON (H.), Anglia sacra, 2 (Londen, 1691) 53-71

LITERATURE

BARLOW (F.), The Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster attributed to a monk of Saint Bertin, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford, 1992 2de druk) 133-147
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 778
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 1 (Roma, 1962) 426-427
HAMILTON (T.J.), Goscelin of Canterbury: A Critical Study of his Life, Works and Accomplishments, Ph.D. diss. (University of Virginia, 1973)
HARDY (T.D.), Descriptive Catalogue of materials relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland, 1, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, 26 (Londen, 1862) nr. 541
LIEBERMANN (F.), 'Raginald von Canterbury', in: Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde 13 (1888) 522-23, 542 e.v
MICHIELS (G.), 'Gauzelin de S.-Bertin', in: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 20 (Parijs, 1984) 127
TOWNSEND (D.), 'Omissions, Emissions, Missionaries and the Master Signifers in Norman Canterbury', in Exemplaria, 7 (1995) 291-315
VAN HOUTS (E.), 'The Norman Conquest Through European Eyes', in: English Historical Review, 110 (1995) 832-853

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Contributor:
Bea Blokhuis

Update:
2014-03-06 15:59:52