Bede and Aethelthryth asks why Christians in Britain around the
year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see in it? What did
they get from it? This book attempts to reconstruct the horizon of
expectation of a highly learned, Latin-speaking nun as she
encounters a fifty-line poem by the Venerable Bede, the Hymn to
Aethelthryth. The reconstruction is hypothetical and derived from
grammatical manuals, learned commentaries from the early medieval
period (especially Servius's commentary on Virgil), and a wide
variety of aesthetic observations by classical and medieval
readers. The first four chapters describe basic expectations of a
reader of Christian Latin poetry. The fifth chapter places the Hymn
in its context within Bede's Ecclesiastical History. A few pages
after Bede records his hymn, Caedmon will recite his own hymn under
the watchful eye of Whitby's Abbess Hild, who was a friend of
Aethelthryth. Both hymns are attempts to reform the lyric
traditions of pagan Rome and pagan Anglo-Saxon England in the light
of Christian teaching. The last three chapters contain a
line-by-line commentary on Bede's alphabetic, epanaleptic elegy.
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