Anglo-latin Literature, Vol. 2, 900-1066

For much of the early Middle Ages, Anglo-Saxon schools and scholars were in the vanguard of European learning, and the extensive corpus of Latin literature which was produced in these schools can take its place proudly, alongside that of any other European country. Yet in spite of its innate interest and its importance to contemporaries, Anglo-Latin literature of the pre-Conquest period remains poorly understood. No bibliography of the subject exists. No comprehensive and authoritative history of pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin literature has ever been written, nor, given the significant number of texts still lying unpublished in manuscript, could it yet be written. Until the time when such a comprehensive history can be written, the essays collected in the present volume, together with those to appear in a complementary volume entitled "Anglo-Latin Literature, 600-899", may serve as a preliminary guide to the subject. It should be stressed, however, that the collection has no pretence to comprehensive coverage, and many areas of literary endeavour — for example, the great burst of hagiographical activity in the later eleventh century — still await scholarly attention. Introduction vii Acknowledgements ix List of Illustrations xi Abbreviations xiii 1. Schools, Learning and Literature in Tenth-Century England 1 2. Some Latin Poems as Evidence for the Reign of Athelstan 49 3. Israel the Grammarian in Anglo-Saxon England 87 4. The Hermeneutic Style in Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Literature 105 5. St. Dunstan’s Latin Poetry 151 6. A Frankish Scholar in Tenth-Century England: Frithegod ofCanterbury/Fredegaud of Brioude 157 7. Æthelwold as Scholar and Teacher 183 8. Æthelwold and the "Vita S. Eustachii" 213 9. Three Latin Poems from Æthelwold’s School at Winchester 225 10. B. and the "Vita S. Dunstani" 279 11. Byrhtferth and the "Vita S. Ecgwini" 293 12. Byrhtferth of Ramsey and the Early Sections of the "Historia Regum" attributed to Symeon of Durham 317 13. A Tenth-Century Metrical Calendar from Ramsey 343 14. Abbot Germanus, Winchcombe, Ramsey and the Cambridge Psalter 387 15. The Cult of St. Indract at Glastonbury 419 16. Ealdred of York and MS. Cotton Vitellius E. XII 453 Additional Notes 469 General Index 493 Index of Manuscripts 502 "The essays collected in the second volume are concerned principally with the tenth-century renaissance of English learning, largely in response to the initiatives of a small number of energetic scholars and teachers, such as Dunstan and Ethelwold. In combination these studies illustrate the idiosyncratic, but advanced, state of Anglo-Saxon learning."--Publisher's description
The essays collected in the second volume are concerned principally with the tenth-century renaissance of English learning, largely in response to the initiatives of a small number of energetic scholars and teachers, such as Dunstan and Ethelwold. In combination these studies illustrate the idiosyncratic, but advanced, state of Anglo-Saxon learning.