The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin
The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin
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USDThis anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450–1500. Excerpts are taken from Bede and other historians, from the letters of women written from their monasteries, from famous documents such as Domesday Book and Magna Carta, and from accounts and legal documents, all revealing the lives of individuals at home and on their travels across Britain and beyond. It offers an insight into Latin writings on many subjects, showing the important role of Latin in the multilingual society of medieval Britain, in which Latin was the primary language of written communication and record and also developed, particularly after the Norman Conquest, through mutual influence with English and French. The thorough introductions to each volume provide a broad overview of the linguistic and cultural background, while the individual texts are placed in their social, historical and linguistic context.
- Provides a wide variety of texts related to important historical events, to medieval learning and culture, or revealing the lives of individuals from royalty to ordinary men, women and children
- Helps the reader understand the texts through accompanying English translations and notes, as well as explanations of the documentary sources and manuscripts in which many of the sources are preserved
- Sets the texts in a historical and linguistic context, showing the multilingual nature of British society, and the changing manner in which Latin and the vernacular languages (particularly English and French) borrowed from each other
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‘These volumes will long remain valuable for illustrating one branch of the Latin tradition, for revealing the work of important and neglected writers in this tradition and for providing an enjoyable and rewarding access to these writers.’ Charles Burnett, International Journal of the Classical Tradition
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- I. 1 Patrick, Confession
- SIXTH CENTURY
- I. 2 Gildas, The ruin of Britain
- SEVENTH CENTURY
- I. 3 The earliest charters: Chertsey: BACS 19 (Chertsey Abbey) no.1
- Thanet: BACS 17 (Christ Church, Canterbury) no. 2
- I. 4 Theodore of Canterbury, Laterculus Malalianus
- and the Poem in praise of Hædde
- I. 5 Descriptions of the Holy Land: Adomnán and Bede on the holy places
- I. 6 Aldhelm, On virginity (prose)
- Letter 5 to Heahfrith
- I. 7 Riddles: Aldhelm
- Tatwine
- Hwætberht
- Boniface
- EIGHTH CENTURY
- I. 8 The Life of Gregory the Great (Anon.of Whitby)
- I. 9 Burginda, Letter to a young man
- I. 10 Bede, Educational writings: on grammar and rhetoric
- and on the reckoning of time
- I. 11 Two Lives of Cuthbert: Anonymous (prose)
- Bede (verse and prose)
- I. 12 Wealdhere, Letter to Berhtwald of Canterbury
- I. 13 Berhtwald of Canterbury, Letter about a slave girl
- I. 14 Ælfflæd of Whitby, Letter to an abbess in Germany
- I. 15 Eddi, The Life of Wilfrid
- I. 16 Two Lives of Ceolfrith: Anonymous and Bede
- I. 17 Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- I. 18 Bede, Letter to bishop Ecgberht
- I. 19 Cuthbert of Jarrow: Letter on the death of Bede
- and Letter to Lul
- I. 20 Felix, The Life of Guthlac
- I. 21 The Letters of Boniface's circle: letter from Eangyth to Boniface (14)
- Leoba to Boniface (29)
- Boniface to bishop Ecgberht of York (75)
- Æthelberht II of Kent to Boniface (105)
- Berhtgyth to her brother (147)
- I. 22 Æthelbald of Mercia: charter to abbess Eadburg, BACS 4 (St.Augustine's, Canterbury) no. 51
- I. 23 Willibald of Mainz, The Life of Boniface
- I. 24 Hugeburc of Heidenheim, The Life of Willibald of Eichstätt
- I. 25 Alchfrith, Prayer to the Virgin Mary
- I. 26 Alcuin, The Life of Willibrord (prose and verse)
- I. 27 Alcuin, On grammar
- I. 28 The coming of the Vikings and the destruction of Lindisfarne (793): Alcuin, Letter 16 to the king of Northumbria
- Symeon of Durham
- Libellus de exordio
- NINTH CENTURY
- I. 29 Æthelwulf: Poem on the abbots of his monastery
- I. 30 Historia Brittonum: the History of the British
- I. 31 A late ninth-century charter, BACS 18 (Christ Church, Canterbury) no. 93
- I. 32 Asser, On the deeds of Alfred
- TENTH CENTURY
- I. 33 A tenth-century charter, BACS 6 (Selsey) no. 16
- I. 34 Regularis Concordia
- I. 35 Literary texts associated with St. Swithun: Lantfred, The translation and miracles of St. Swithun
- Wulfstan of Winchester, A metrical account of St. Swithun
- A sequence on Swithun and Birinus (Anon.)
- I. 36 Æthelweard, Chronicle
- I. 37 A treaty between Æthelred the Unready and the Viking leader
- I. 38 Ælfric, Preface to the first book of Catholic Homilies
- I. 39 Ælfric, Educational writings: Grammar
- Glossary
- Colloquy
- Ælfric Bata, Colloquy
- I. 40 Saints' Lives from around the millennium
- I. 41 Three accounts of King Alfred and the cakes: First Life of St. Neot
- Annals of St. Neot
- the Chronicle attributed to John of Wallingford
- I. 42 In praise of Queen Emma.
