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Aldhelm - The Prose Works (Paperback)
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Aldhelm - The Prose Works (Paperback)
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Translation with notes of Aldhelm's famous treatise on virginity,
and his less well-known letters. Aldhelm, born c.640 in Wessex, and
becoming abbot of Malmesbury and later bishop of Sherborne, was the
first English man of letters; up to 1100, his prose writings were
the most widely read of any Latin literature produced in
Anglo-Saxon England. His surviving prose works include a long
treatise De virginitate, and a number of letters; these in
particular are an important source of knowledge concerning
Anglo-Saxon England. The treatise, a lengthy exhortation on virtue
addressed to nuns at Barking Abbey, is a fascinating series of
exempla drawn from the prodigious range of Aldhelm's knowledge of
patristic literature, and tailored to the expectations of a
seventh-century Anglo-Saxon female audience. Because of the extreme
difficulty of his Latin, however, Aldhelm's prose works have rarely
been read, and have never been adequately appreciated - which this
translation seeks to remedy. It is accompanied with an introduction
outlining Aldhelm's central importance to Anglo-Saxon literary
culture; a critical biography which throws new light on what has
previously been assumed about him; and an essay establishing an
accurate canon and chronology of his writings.
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