The Early Lives of St Dunstan

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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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Michael Lapidge was formerly Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on the literature of the Anglo-Saxons (written both in English and Latin) and also on Latin authors of the early Middle Ages. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Munich) and of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome). Michael Winterbottom taught for five years at University College London as Lecturer in Latin and Greek (1962-7). He was for twenty five years Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Worcester College, Oxford (1967-1992), before moving to Corpus Christi College as Corpus Professor of Latin. He retired in 2001. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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December 22nd, 2011

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Edited by Michael Lapidge
Edited by Michael Winterbottom

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380

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Oxford Medieval Texts

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145x222x25

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9780199605040

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10356377

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