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Vita et miracula sancti Melliti

Century: 11

Hagiography

Latin

England

INCIPIT

Precellentissimus anglorum apostolus Augustinus dilectato rege Athelberto...

EXPLICIT

...Miro ergo modo ubi deserta theca te monstrant abesse liquidis pietatis tuae vestigiis testatur te affuisse.

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 Saint Augustine in Canterbury - Date:after 1091 - Commission: /

SIZE

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Biography and miracles of Mellitus, archbishop of Canterbury. The Vita sancti Laurentii, Vita et miracula sancti Melliti, Vita sancti Iusti, Vita sancti Honorii, Vita Sancti Deusdedit, Vita sancti Theodori, Vita et miracula sancti Letardi and the Vita, translatio et miracula Adriani appear in combination with texts dealing with St Augustine and St Mildred, as a result of their translation to St Augustine's abbey in Canterbury in 1091. Because of their coherence, all texts are attributed to Goscelinus. Anyway, the vita St Laurentii is announced by Goscelinus in his Translatio St Augustini.

SOURCES

Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica (Beda, Historia ecclesiastica)

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

London, British Library, Cotton mss., Vespasianus B XX

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

Verzameling heiligenlevens

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
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) 219-20 nr. 591 (cfr. 378)
LIEBERMANN (F.), 'Raginald von Canterbury', in: Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde 13 (1888) 522-23, 542 e.v

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Contributor:
Bea Blokhuis

Update:
2014-03-06 17:09:01