Afterlife of St Cuthbert

Afterlife of St Cuthbert

Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500

Whitehead, Christiania

Cambridge University Press

12/2020

350

Dura

Inglês

9781108490351

15 a 20 dias

700

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1. Blessings on pregnant seals: constructing Cuthbert's asceticism in his anonymous and Bedan vitae and the Historia ecclesiastica, 690-740; 2. Travels with my coffin: the dislocation and defence of the community of St Cuthbert in the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto, 793-1050; 3. The bishop in the rain: celebrating the new order in Symeon of Durham's Libellus de exordio, Old English Durham, and the Capitula de miraculis et translationibus sancti Cuthberti, 1066-1140; 4. Expansions and contractions of saintly space in two Cuthbertine miracle collections, 1150-1210; 5. Godric of Finchale, Bartholomew of Farne, and the 'Irish' Libellus de ortu Sancti Cuthberti: three eremitic responses to St Cuthbert, 1150-1210; 6. Delimiting sanctity in two meditations from Farne Island: the Exortacio ad Contemplacionem and the Meditaciones of the Monk of Farne, 1210-1370; 7. Vernacular epitomes and encyclopedias: Southern Legendaries and the Metrical Life of St Cuthbert, 1270-1500; Conclusion.
St Cuthbert; Farne Island; Durham Cathedral; Durham Benedictine priory; Lindisfarne; Bede; medieval hermit; Monk of Farne; St Bartholomew of Farne; North of England