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KATERN 1 WRITING THE WILTON WOMEN Goscelin’s Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius __________________ MEDIEVAL WOMEN: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Editorial Board under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Hull Juliette Dor (Université de Liège) Constant J. Mews (Monash University) Anneke Mulder-Bakker (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) Nicholas Watson (Harvard University) Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University) Editorial Assistants Maryna Mews Edna Ruth Yahil VOLUME 9 WRITING THE WILTON WOMEN Goscelin’s Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius Edited by Stephanie Hollis with W. R. Barnes, Rebecca Hayward, Kathleen Loncar, and Michael Wright F British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Writing the Wilton women : Goscelin’s Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius. – (Medieval women : texts and contexts ; 9) 1.Goscelin of St Bertin. Liber confortatorius 2.Goscelin of St Bertin. Vita Edithae 3.Edith, Saint 4.Wilton Abbey 5.Monastic and religious life of women – England – Wiltshire – History – To 1500 6.Convents – England – Wiltshire – History – To 1500 7.Benedictine nuns – England – Wiltshire – History – To 1500 8.Monastic and religious life of women – Early works to 1800 9.Spiritual life – Early works to 1800 10.Hermits – Early works to 1800 I.Hollis, Stephanie II.Barnes, W.R. 248.8'943 ISBN 2503514367 © 2004, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2004/0095/61 ISBN: 2-503-51436-7 Printed in the EU on acid–free paper. Contents Acknowledgements vii Abbreviations ix Contributors xi Introduction 1 STEPHANIE HOLLIS Part 1—Goscelin’s Legend of Edith TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL WRIGHT AND KATHLEEN LONCAR Note on the Translation of the Legend of Edith 17 MICHAEL WRIGHT Chapter Headings in Rawlinson 21 The Vita of Edith 23 The Translatio of Edith 69 Part 2—Goscelin’s Liber confortatorius TRANSLATED BY W. R. BARNES AND REBECCA HAYWARD Note on the Translation of the Liber confortatorius 97 W. R. BARNES AND REBECCA HAYWARD Prologue 99 Book I 101 Book II 125 Book III 151 Book IV 175 Appendix: Textual Emendations 209 W. R. BARNES AND REBECCA HAYWARD Part 3—The Wilton Women: Subjects and Audience Goscelin’s Writings and the Wilton Women 217 STEPHANIE HOLLIS St Edith and the Wilton Community 245 STEPHANIE HOLLIS Edith as Contemplative and Bride of Christ 281 STEPHANIE HOLLIS Wilton as a Centre of Learning 307 STEPHANIE HOLLIS Part 4—The Liber confortatorius: The Writer and the Reader Spiritual Friendship and Gender Difference in the Liber confortatorius 341 REBECCA HAYWARD Goscelin’s Liber confortatorius: Complaints and Consolations 355 REBECCA HAYWARD The Anchorite’s Progress: Structure and Motif in the Liber confortatorius 369 REBECCA HAYWARD AND STEPHANIE HOLLIS The Female Reader in the Liber confortatorius 385 REBECCA HAYWARD AND STEPHANIE HOLLIS Goscelin’s Greeks and Romans 401 W. R. BARNES Afterword 419 STEPHANIE HOLLIS Works Cited 431 Index 443 Acknowledgements This project could not have been undertaken without the award of a University of Auckland Postdoctoral Fellowship. The authors wish to thank the University of Auckland Research Committee for this award, as well as for a subsequent travel grant for the Postdoctoral Fellow, Rebecca Hayward. We would also like to thank staff of the University of Auckland Library for their assistance, particularly Linda George and Christine Jackson. We are indebted to Giles Margetts for his generous assistance with microtexts. Acknowledgements are due to the British Library (for microfilm of British Library, Sloane MS 3103, fols 1–114), the National Library of Wales (for microfilm of Cardiff, Public Library, MS I. 381, fols 81–120), the Gotha Landesbibliothek (for photocopy of Gotha, Landesbibliothek, MS I. 81, fols 188v–203), and the Royal College of Physicians of London, for permission to reproduce fol. 76 of the Wilton Psalter. The editor wishes to thank Simon Forde, Constant Mews, and Jocelyn Wogan- Browne for their advice and support, and Phillip Wheeler and Pamela Forde at the Library of the Royal College of Physicians for their assistance. Michael Wright wishes to acknowledge the assistance of staff at the Bodleian Library. Rebecca Hayward wishes to acknowledge the assistance of staff at the British Library, the Cambridge University Library, the Cardiff Public Library, the New York Public Library, the Robarts Library, University of Toronto, the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies Library, Toronto, the University of Sydney Library, and the Widener Library, Harvard University. Rebecca Hayward also wishes to acknowledge the advice and assistance of the following: Jill Mann (University of Notre Dame), George Rigg (University of Toronto), Alexandra Barratt (University of Waikato), Andrew Hughes (University of Toronto), Paul Hayward (University of Leicester), Margaret Edgcumbe (University of Auckland), Greti Dinkova-Bruun (University of Toronto), and the staff of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, particularly David Howlett, Carolinne White, and Theo Christchev. viii She would also like to thank Neil Wright, Alan and Vivienne Hayward, and Susan Carter for their personal support, and a number of others who kindly accommodated her during research trips: Philippa D’Eath, Claire Cowie and James Roth, Lucy Lewis, Sarah Tolmie and Scott Morgan Straker, Ruth Harvey, Beth and Wayne Mezitt, Jolisa Gracewood and Richard Easther, Justine Kirby, Kathleen O’Grady and Mey Rehemtulla, Simon Christmas, Ngaire Woods and Eugene Rogan, and Deborah and Steve Cannon. Abbreviations C Cardiff, Public Library, MS I. 381 CAO Corpus antiphonalium officii, ed. by René-Jean Hesbert and René Prévost, 6 vols (Rome: Herder, 1963–79) CCSA Corpus Christianorum Series Apocryphorum (Turnhout: Brepols, 1990–) CCSL Corpus Christianorum Series Latina (Turnhout: Brepols, 1954–) CCCM Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout: Brepols, 1966–) CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (Vienna, 1866–) G Gotha, Landesbibliothek, MS I. 81 Liber confort Ed. by C. H. Talbot, ‘The Liber confortatorius of Goscelin of Saint Bertin’, Analecta monastica, series 3, Studia Anselmiana, 37, ed. by M. M. Lebreton, J. Leclercq, and C. H. Talbot (Rome: Pontifical Institute of St Anselm, 1955), 1–117 PL Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina, ed. by Jacques- Paul Migne, 221 vols (Paris: Garnier, 1844–64) R Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS C938 (R) Found only in the Rawlinson version of Vita Edithae, Chapters 2–24 Translatio Edithae Ed. by A. Wilmart, ‘La légende de Ste Édith en prose et vers par le moine Goscelin’, Analecta Bollandiana, 56 (1938), 265–307 VCH Victoria County History Vita Edithae Ed. by A. Wilmart, ‘La légende de Ste Édith en prose et vers par le moine Goscelin’, Analecta Bollandiana, 56 (1938), 5–101 x Abbreviations of Biblical Books Am Amos Ps(s) Psalm(s) Bar Baruch Pt Peter Col Colossians Rom Romans Cor Corinthians Ru Ruth Dn Daniel Rv Revelation Dt Deuteronomy Sg Song of Songs Eccl Ecclesiastes Sir Sirach Ecclus Ecclesiasticus Tb Tobit Eph Ephesians Thes Thessalonians Esd Esdras Ti Titus Est Esther Tm Timothy Ex Exodus Wis Wisdom (of Solomon) Ez Ezekiel Zec Zechariah (Zacharaiah) Gal Galatians Zep Zephaniah (Sophonias) Gn Genesis Hb Habukkuk Heb Hebrews Hg Haggai Is Isaiah Jas James Jb Job Jdt Judith Jer Jeremiah Jgs Judges Jl Joel Jn John Jo Joshua Kgs Kings (I, II Kings = I, II Samuel; III, IV Kings = I, II Kings) Lam Lamentations Lk Luke Lv Leviticus Mal Malachi Mi Micah Mk Mark Mt Matthew Nm Numbers Phil Phillippians Phlm Philemon Prv Proverbs
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