229,94 €
255,49 €
-10% with code: EXTRA
Historia de Sancto Cuthberto
Historia de Sancto Cuthberto
229,94
255,49 €
  • We will send in 10–14 business days.
First English translation, with new edition, of a crucial text. While it retains many of the trappings of a traditional saint's life, the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto is also a remarkable record of the political activities and property acquisitions of a powerful Anglo-Saxon monastery, and it vividly demonstrates the ongoing relationship between the monks and their patron saint. Written in Northumbria in the tenth or eleventh century, the Historia presents a striking contrast with earlier lives…
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN-10: 0859916278
  • ISBN-13: 9780859916271
  • Format: 16 x 24.1 x 1.9 cm, hardcover
  • Language: English
  • SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA

Historia de Sancto Cuthberto (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

Reviews

(4.50 Goodreads rating)

Description

First English translation, with new edition, of a crucial text.

While it retains many of the trappings of a traditional saint's life, the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto is also a remarkable record of the political activities and property acquisitions of a powerful Anglo-Saxon monastery, and it vividly demonstrates the ongoing relationship between the monks and their patron saint. Written in Northumbria in the tenth or eleventh century, the Historia presents a striking contrast with earlier lives of Cuthbertsuch as Bede's, and is a valuable teaching text.
The present edition is the first to make use of all three surviving manuscripts of the Historia, and is also the first English translation of this brief but importanttext. It includes a reassessment of the text's purpose and date, a detailed historical commentary, excerpts of related texts, and a discussion of the patrimony of St Cuthbert, including maps of estates and a catalogue of the morethan one hundred vills listed in the text.

TED JOHNSON SOUTH is Associate Professor of History, Western New England College.

EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA

229,94
255,49 €
We will send in 10–14 business days.

The promotion ends in 18d.13:29:05

The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.

Log in and for this item
you will receive 2,55 Book Euros!?
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN-10: 0859916278
  • ISBN-13: 9780859916271
  • Format: 16 x 24.1 x 1.9 cm, hardcover
  • Language: English English

First English translation, with new edition, of a crucial text.

While it retains many of the trappings of a traditional saint's life, the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto is also a remarkable record of the political activities and property acquisitions of a powerful Anglo-Saxon monastery, and it vividly demonstrates the ongoing relationship between the monks and their patron saint. Written in Northumbria in the tenth or eleventh century, the Historia presents a striking contrast with earlier lives of Cuthbertsuch as Bede's, and is a valuable teaching text.
The present edition is the first to make use of all three surviving manuscripts of the Historia, and is also the first English translation of this brief but importanttext. It includes a reassessment of the text's purpose and date, a detailed historical commentary, excerpts of related texts, and a discussion of the patrimony of St Cuthbert, including maps of estates and a catalogue of the morethan one hundred vills listed in the text.

TED JOHNSON SOUTH is Associate Professor of History, Western New England College.

Reviews

  • No reviews
0 customers have rated this item.
5
0%
4
0%
3
0%
2
0%
1
0%
(will not be displayed)