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Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac - Texts, Translation and Notes (Paperback, Revised)
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Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac - Texts, Translation and Notes (Paperback, Revised)
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Written around 730 740 the Life of Guthlac by the monk Felix is an
important and colourful source for the obscure early history of
East Anglia and the Fens. It describes how the youthful Guthlac
(674 714) won fame at the head of a Mercian warrior band fighting
the British on the borders of Wales before entering the monastery
at Repton at the age of twenty-four. Distinguished from the first
by his piety and asceticism, Guthlac moved on around 700 to a
solitary life on Crowland, an uninhabited island accessible only by
boat deep in the wild and desolate marshland separating Mercia and
East Anglia. Here he built a shelter cut into the side of a
burial-mound in which he lived austerely, skin-clad in the manner
of the Desert Fathers, for the rest of his life. Tormented by
demons but consoled by visions of angels, Guthlac gained a
reputation for sanctity and miraculous healing which spread far
afield and continued to grow after his death. This Life vividly
reflects the cult of St Guthlac as it existed in East Anglia only a
generation later.
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