Location:Peterborough (?) (Talbot) - Date:c.1080-2 (Barlow 1992) - Commission: /

4 libelli

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Tract adressed to Eve, daughter of Api, a Dane, and Olive, a woman from Lotharingia, who left the convent of Wilton and became a nun in St Laurent du Tertre in Angers. The text holds information and encouragements concerning her life as a hermit, and also deals with Goscelinus' life.

London, British Library, Sloane, 3103 (Link)

(English) 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)
(English) OTTER (M.) (ed.), Liber Confortatorius: The book of encouragement and consolation (Woodbridge, 2004)

TALBOT (C.H.), 'The Liber confortatorius of Goscelin of Saint Bertin', in: Studia Anselmiana, 37. Analecta Monastica, 3ième série, (Rome, 1955) 26-117
WILMART (A.), 'Eve et Goscelin', in: Revue bénédictine, 50 (1938) 42-83 (fragment)

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
CANATELLA (H.-M.), 'Long-distance love: the ideology of male-female spiritual friendship in Goscelin of Saint Bertin's Liber confortatorius', Journal of the History of Sexuality 19 (2010) 35-53
GOPA (R.), 'Sharpen your mind with the whetstone of books': the female recluse as reader in Goscelin's Liber confortatorius, Aelred of Rievaulx's De institutione inclusarum and the Ancrene Wisse.', in: L. Smith, T. (J.H.M.) (eds.), Women, the Book and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993 (Cambridge, 1995) 113-122
HAMILTON (T.J.), Goscelin of Canterbury: A Critical Study of his Life, Works and Accomplishments, Ph.D. diss. (University of Virginia, 1973)
HOLLIS (S.), 'Strategies of emplacement and displacement: St. Edith and the Wilton community in Goscelin's Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius', in: C.A. Lees, R.G. Overing (eds.), A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes. (Pennsylvania, 2006) 150-169
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)
O'KEEFFE (K.), 'Goscelin and the consecration of Eve', Anglo-Saxon England, 35 (2006) 251-270
OTTER (M.) (ed.), Liber Confortatorius: The book of encouragement and consolation (Woodbridge, 2004)
OTTER (M.), 'Entrances and exits: performing the Psalms in Goscelin's Liber confortatorius', Speculum, 83 (2008) 283-302
ROY (G.), '"Sharpen your Mind with theWhetstone of Books", the Female Recluse as Reader in Goscelin's "Liber Confortatorius", Aelred of Rievaulx's "De Institutione Inclusarum" and the "Ancrene Wisse"' in Women, the Book and the Godly, Selected Proceedings
TALBOT (C.H.), 'The Liber Confortatorius of Goscelin of Saint Bertin', in Studia Anselmiana 37 (1955) 1-117, Analecta Monastica 3ième série, Roma 1955 45658
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
WILMART (A.), ve et Goscelin, RB 46 (1934) 414-438