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Vita et virtutes sanctae Ethelburgae

Century: 11

Hagiography

Latin

England

INCIPIT

Prologus: Mauricio summo... Beda Venerabilis, qui de multis historiam suam...-- Corpus: Exsultet in Domino anglica Britannia...

EXPLICIT

...quam ubi corporali rutilat presentia. Nunc ergo deprecemur pariter Domini respectum... Amen.

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: / - Date:between 1086 and 1098/9 (Esposito) - Commission:dedicated to Maurice, bishop of London (1086-1107)

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CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Description of the life and virtues of St Ethelburga, abbess of Barking (+ in the period 664-678).

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Cardiff, Public Library, I 381
Dublin, Trinity College, 176
Gotha, Forschungs-und Landesbibliothek, I 81

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

COLKER (M.L.), 'Texts of Jocelyn of Canterbury which relate to the history of Barking Abbey', Studia Monastica, 7 (1965) 398-417
COLKER (M.L.), A Gotha Codex dealing with the Saints of Barking Abbey, Studia Monastica 10 (1968) 321-324
ESPOSITO (M.), 'Analecta varia', Hermathena, 36 (1910) 92 (fragment)
GNEUSS (H.), Die Handschrift Cotton Otho A. xii, Anglia 94 (1976) 289-318

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 Suppl. 2630b
Bibliotheca sanctorum, 5 (1964) 118
ESPOSITO (M.), 'Analecta varia', Hermathena, 36 (1910) 86
ESPOSITO (M.), 'La vie de sainte Vulfhilde par Goscelin de Cantorbéry', in: Analecta Bollandiana, 32 (1913) 10-11 (ms.)
HAMILTON (T.J.), Goscelin of Canterbury: A Critical Study of his Life, Works and Accomplishments, Ph.D. diss. (University of Virginia, 1973)
HOLLIS (S.), BARNES (W.R.) (eds.), Writing the Wilton women: Goscelin's Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius (Medieval women: texts and contexts, 9) (Medieval women: texts and contexts, 9) (Turnhout, 2004)
VAN HOUTS (E.), 'The Norman Conquest Through European Eyes', in: English Historical Review, 110 (1995) 832-853
WHALEN (G.), 'Patronage engendered: how Goscelin allayed the concerns of nuns' discriminatory publics.', in: L. Smith, H.M. Taylor (eds.), Women, the Book and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993 (Camebridge, 1995) 123-135

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Contributor:
Bea Blokhuis

Update:
2014-03-06 17:01:13