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The Early Lives of St Dunstan (Hardcover)
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The Early Lives of St Dunstan (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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The Early Lives of St Dunstan contains new editions, with
translation and extensive commentary, of the two earliest Lives of
St Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury (960-88) and one of the
principal figures of the tenth-century English church. The two
Lives were composed in the early eleventh century (within a few
years of Dunstan's death in 988), and provide eye-witness accounts
of some of the most important events in the archbishop's long and
troubled life. Neither of them has been translated before; the
provision of translations and commentary facilitates a new
understanding of this cardinal figure of the pre-Conquest English
church. Neither Life has been edited since the nineteenth century;
the editions in the present book are based on a wholly new
interpretation of the manuscript evidence for the two works, so
that the text which is presented here is radically different from
the text currently in use (that of William Stubbs, published in
1874); furthermore, the excruciatingly difficult Latin of the
author of the earliest Life, who names himself only as B., has
hindered historians from acquiring a proper understanding of
Dunstan's life and achievements. The new translation, in
combination with detailed philological and historical notes, allows
scholarly access to the work for the very first time, and allows a
fresh assessment of many aspects of tenth-century English history.
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