The twelfth-century Anglo-Norman verse Life of King Edward the
Confessor is presented here in modern English for the first time,
and with a full introduction and notes. Its author, an anonymous
Nun of Barking Abbey, offers a many-faceted and absorbing portrait
of the celebrated king and saint, together with legendary material
found in no other version of this hagiographic narrative. There is
also a wealth of detail about Edward's times as well as about the
twelfth-century context in which the Nun was writing, making the
poem of great interest to historians as well as to literary
scholars. This is among the earliest texts in French known to be by
a woman, and so will also be of great value to scholars
investigating medieval female authorship. Long neglected, perhaps
because mistakenly thought to be a mere translation of Aelred of
Rievaulx's Vita in Latin, it proves to be remarkably independent of
its main source and raises questions about the freedom and
originality of medieval 'transposition' or translation.
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