Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints’ Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150)

623 Pages·2014·25.92 MB·English

by  Loredana Lazzari

Federation Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes Medievales
TEXTES ET ETUDES DU MOYEN AGE, 73
HAGIOGRAPHY IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND:
ADOPTING AND ADAPTING SAINTS' LIVES
INTO OLD ENGLISH PROSE (c. 950-1150)
Edited by
LOREDANA LAZZARI
PA TRIZIA LENDINARA
CLAUDIA Dr SCIACCA
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Presidents honoraires :
L.E. BOYLE (t) (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana e Commissio Leonina,
1987-1999)
L. HOLTZ (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, Paris, 1999-
2003)
President:
J. HAMESSE (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Vice-President :
G. DINKOVA BRUUN (Pontifical Institute ofMediaeval Studies, Toronto)
Membres du Comite :
O.R. CONSTABLE (t) (University ofNotre Dame)
M. HOENEN (Universitat Basel)
M.J. MuNOZ JIMENEZ (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
R.H. PICH (Pontificia Universidade Cat61ica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto
Alegre)
Secretaire :
P. CANIZARES (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Editeur responsable :
A. GOMEZ RABAL (Instituci6n Mila y Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona)
Coordinateur du Diplome Europeen d'Etudes Medievales:
G. SPINOSA (Universita degli Studi di Cassino)
President de l 'Association des Anciens Etudiants du Dip lome :
M. PAVON RAMIREZ (Roma)
Federation Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes Medievales
TEXTES ET ETUDES DU MOYEN AGE, 73
HAGIOGRAPHY IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND:
ADOPTING AND ADAPTING SAINTS' LIVES
INTO OLD ENGLISH PROSE (c. 950-1150)
Edited by
LOREDANA LAZZARI
PATRIZIA LENDINARA
CLAUDIA DI SCIACCA
Barcelona -Madrid
2014
Published with the contribution of
Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca Scientifica, Italy
(PRIN 2009)
LUMSA of Rome
University of Palermo
University ofUdine
ISBN: 978-2-503-55199-9
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© 2014 Federation Intemationale des Instituts d'Etudes Medievales.
Departamento de Filologia Latina, Despacho A-309, Facultad de
Filologia. Edificio A, Ciudad Universitaria-28040 Madrid-Espagne
CONTENTS
Illustrations
Vll
Abbreviations
V111
Preface
Xl
HAGIOGRAPHY IN LATE ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND: lELFRIC OF
EYNSHAM AND THE LIVES OF SAINTS
Joyce HILL (University of Leeds), The Context of lElfric' s Saints'
Lives 1
Loredana LAZZARI (LUMSA, Rome), Kingship and Sainthood in
lElfric: Oswald (634-642) and Edmund (840-869) 29
Susan IRVINE (University College London), Hanging by a Thread:
lElfric's Saints' Lives and the hengen
67
Rolf H. BREMMER Jr. (University of Leiden), Shame and Honour
in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography, with Special Reference to
lElfric 's Lives ofS aints
95
BACK TO THE ROOTS OF CHRISTIAN MONASTICISM: ADOPTING
ANDADAPTINGTHE VITASPATRUM
Claudia Dr SCIACCA (University of Udine), «concupita, quaesita,
ac petita solitudinis secreta»: The Desert Ideal in Bede's Vita S.
Cuthberti and lElfric's Life of St Cuthbert 121
Winfried RUDOLF (University of Gottingen), The Selection and
Compilation of the Verba Seniorum in Worcester, Cathedral
Library, F.48 183
ANGLO-SAXON HAGIOGRAPHY: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS
Concetta GILIBERTO (University of Palermo), The Descensus ad
inferos in the Old English Prose Life of St Guthlac and Vercelli
Homily xxiii
229
Giuseppe D. DE BONIS (University of Naples 'L'Orientale'), The
Birth of Saint John the Baptist: A Source Comparison between
Blickling Homily xiv and lElfric's Catholic Homily I.xxv 255
Claudio CATALDI (University of Palermo), St Andrew in the Old
English Homiletic Tradition
293
vi
Maria Caterina DE BONIS (University of Potenza), An Unfinished
Drawing of St Benedict in a Neglected Manuscript of the
Regula S. Benedicti (Cambridge, Trinity College, 0.2.30) 309
Catherine CUBITT (University of York), Reading Tenth- and
Eleventh-Century Latin Hagiography in the Contex of the
345
Reign of King .tEthelred II 'The Unready'
Patrizia LENDINARA (University of Palermo), Forgotten
Missionaries: St Augustine of Canterbury in Anglo-Saxon and
365
Post-Conquest England
REWRITING ANGLO-SAXON HAGIOGRAPHY IN ANGLO-NORMAN
ENGLAND
Rosalind LOVE (University of Cambridge), The Anglo-Saxon
Saints of Thomey Abbey and their Hagiographer 499
Roberta BASSI (Stendhal University - Grenoble 3), St Oswald in
Early English Chronicles and Narratives 535
Indices (Giuseppe D. DE BONIS) 557
Index of manuscripts 559
Index of authors and works 565
Index of saints 583
ILLUSTRATIONS
Plate I Cambridge, Trinity College, R.17 .1, f. 263r
Plate II Weaving on the two-beam vertical loom, drawn by Simon
Chew, York Archaeological Trust
Plate III A Faroese warp-weighted loom in the Copenhagen
Museum, from H. Ling Roth, Ancient Egyptian and Greek
Looms, Bankfield Museum, Halifax 1913, p. 34
PlateN Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48, f. 138r
Plate V Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48, f. 126r
Plate VI Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48, f. 123v
Plate VII Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48, f. 143v/5-6
Plate VIII Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48, f. 112r
Plate IX Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48, f. 143v
Plate X Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48, ff. 120v, 122r, 121v
Plate XI Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48, f. 108r
Plate XII Cambridge, Trinity College, 0.2.30, f. 129r
Plate XIII Cambridge, Trinity College, 0.2.30, f. 129v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Permission to publish photographs has been granted by the Cambridge,
University Library (cover illustration), the Master and Fellows of Trinity
College, Cambridge (pis. I, XII, XIII), and the Dean and Chapter of
Worcester Cathedral (pis. IV-XI). The copyright of the drawing by Simon
Chew (pl. II) rests with The Anglo-Saxon Laboratory, York.
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CCCM Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, Brepols,
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CCSL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, Brepols, Tumhout
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CLA Codices Latini Antiquiores. A Palaeographical Guide to
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ix
CPL Clavis Patrum Latinorum, ed. by E. Dekkers and E. Gaar,
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CSASE Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge
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CSEL Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, various
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EEMF Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 29 vols., Rosenkilde
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EETS Early English Text Society Publications, published for the
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os Original series (1864-)
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MGH Monumenta Germaniae historica, Weidmann, Hannover,
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AA Auctores antiquissimi
Ep Epistolae
PLAC Poetae latini aevi Carolini
SRG Scriptores rerum Germanicarum
SRM Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum
ss
Scriptores (in Folio)
MRTS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Center for
Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies[= CEMERS], State
University ofNew York, Binghamton, from 1978 until1996;
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies [=
ACMRS], Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 1996-
X
PG Patrologiae cursus completus, series Graeca, ed. by J.-P.
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PL Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina, ed. by J.-P.
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VCSS Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, Aldershot 1970-