Anglo-Latin Literature, Vol.1, 600-899

Michael Lapidge

• Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
• Year: 1996
• Print ISBN:
  9781852850111
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441101051
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The Latin literature of Anglo-Saxon England remains poorly understood. No bibliography of the subject exists. No comprehensive and authoritative history of Anglo-Latin literature has ever been written. It is only in recent years, largely through the essays collected in the present volumes, that the outline and intrinsic interest of the field have been clarified. Indeed, until a comprehensive history of the period is written, these collected essays offer the only reliable guide to the subject. The essays in the first volume are concerned with the earliest period of literary activity in England. Following a general essay which surveys the field as a whole, the essays range from the arrival of Theodore and Hadrian, through Aldhelm and Bede, to Aediluulf.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Illustrations
• Introduction
• Abbreviations
• 1 Anglo-Latin Literature
• 2 Artistic and Literary Patronage in Anglo-Saxon England
• 3 The Career of Archbishop Theodore
• 4 The Study of Greek at the School of Canterbury in the Seventh Century
• 5 The School of Theodore and Hadrian
• 6 Old English Glossography: The Latin Context
• 7 An Isidorian Epitome from Early Anglo-Saxon England
• 8 Theodore and Anglo-Latin Octosyllabic Verse
• 9 Aldhelm's Latin Poetry and Old English Verse
• 10 Beowulf, Aldhelm, the Liber Monstrorum and Wessex
• 11 Bede the Poet
• 12 Bede's Metrical Vita S. Cuthberti
• 13 Some Remnants of Bede's Lost Liber Epigrammatum
• 14 Aediluulf and the School of York
• 15 Knowledge of the Poems of Venantius Fortunatus in Early Anglo-Saxon England
• 16 Latin Learning in Ninth-Century England
• 17 The Study of Latin Texts in Late Anglo-Saxon England
• Additional Notes
• Index
• Index of Manuscripts