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Vita et translatio sanctae WlfildaeVulfildae virginis
Century: 11
Hagiography
Latin
England
INCIPIT
Prologus: (1) Que pia sunt fidus capiat pietatis amicus./ Mauricius iugi vivat calamo Goscelini.-- (2) Vita sacratissime virginis Vulfilde late refulget et in populo et in eclesiis et maxime in suis popularibus locis, atque in ore multorum recitatur ut in libris. Propius quoque...-- Corpus: (vi.) Genealogia exponendae virginis sic retexitur ab antiquis. Rex Anglorum Alfredus silvam concutiens indagine venandi, forte vocem vagientis deprehendit parvuli. Qui...-- (tr.) Amabilis Deo Wlfilda et in vita et post obitum miraculis gloriosa, in urbe Lundonia propter externos exercitus cum suo grege in ultimum diem commorata, migravit...-- (epil.) Matris Adelburge generatio dulcis avete!/ Vernet et hec mater que gratia cara vocetur./ Matris Adelburge Hildelitheque secunde...
EXPLICIT
(vi.) ...ut humanum reptile advenisset. Hinc utriusque domus unanimes filie desinant defunctam lugere, quam per vitalia signa vident presentius ac prestantius vivere.-- (tr.) ...fide etiam erat comprobanda .Hic ergo expositis virtutibus Vulfhilde beatissime, postulamus salvari eius pia interventione per salvatorem regnantem super omnia sine fine.-- (epil.) ...Vulfildeque bone, tria lumina tresque corone,/ Gestaque clara micant que cantia nostra perhennant./ Fratrem perpetuum vos hinc nostis Gocelinum.
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:after 1086 (Barlow) - Commission:between 1086 and 1098/9 (Esposito); dedicated to Maurice, bishop of London (1086-1107)
SIZE
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CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Description of the life and translation of St Vulfilda, abbess of Barking (+after 996, c. 1003).
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
N.A. (cfr. Esposito)
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
Analecta bollandiana, 32 (1913) 12-26
COLKER (M.L.), 'Texts of Jocelyn of Canterbury which relate to the history of Barking Abbey', Studia Monastica, 7 (1965) 418-434
ESPOSITO (M.), 'Analecta varia', Hermathena, 36 (1910) 87-89 (fragment)
COLKER (M.L.), 'Texts of Jocelyn of Canterbury which relate to the history of Barking Abbey', Studia Monastica, 7 (1965) 418-434
ESPOSITO (M.), 'Analecta varia', Hermathena, 36 (1910) 87-89 (fragment)
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. 8736bd
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 12 1360-1361
COLKER (M. L.), A Gotha Codex dealing with the Saints of Barking Abbey, Studia Monastica 10 (1968) 321-324
COLKER (M.L.), 'Texts of Jocelyn of Canterbury which relate to the history of Barking Abbey', in: Studia Monastica, 7 (1965) 383-460
ESPOSITO (M.), 'La vie de sainte Vulfhilde par Goscelin de Cantorbéry', in: Analecta Bollandiana, 32 (1913) 46296
GNEUSS (H.), Die Handschrift Cotton Otho A. xii, Anglia 94 (1976) 289-318
GOSLING (J.), ‘The identity of the lady Aelfgyva in the Bayeux Tapestry and some speculation regarding the hagiographer Goscelin’, in: Analecta bollandiana, 108 (1990) 75, noot 12
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)
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
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Suppl. 8736bd
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 12 1360-1361
COLKER (M. L.), A Gotha Codex dealing with the Saints of Barking Abbey, Studia Monastica 10 (1968) 321-324
COLKER (M.L.), 'Texts of Jocelyn of Canterbury which relate to the history of Barking Abbey', in: Studia Monastica, 7 (1965) 383-460
ESPOSITO (M.), 'La vie de sainte Vulfhilde par Goscelin de Cantorbéry', in: Analecta Bollandiana, 32 (1913) 46296
GNEUSS (H.), Die Handschrift Cotton Otho A. xii, Anglia 94 (1976) 289-318
GOSLING (J.), ‘The identity of the lady Aelfgyva in the Bayeux Tapestry and some speculation regarding the hagiographer Goscelin’, in: Analecta bollandiana, 108 (1990) 75, noot 12
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)
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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Bea Blokhuis
Update:
2014-03-06 17:06:57
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Bea Blokhuis
Update:
2014-03-06 17:06:57
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