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The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9780521581554, 0521581559
LCC
PE273 .G74 1999
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1927370 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England
Pages
486\486
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in late-tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, of his influential school. The early stages of Æthelwold's scholarly career are explored and new light is shed on the role which King Æthelstan's cosmopolitan court played. Two widely influential Old English texts are definitively attributed to Æthelwold and his circle, which attest to the importance that the reformers attached to the vernacular.

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