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Eadmer of Canterbury

Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald

by Bernard J. Muir, Andrew J. Turner

  • Hardback
  • 472 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 3.1 cm

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For historians and enthusiasts of medieval Christianity

Uncovers the lesser-known lives of key English saints

You will gain a deeper understanding of Anglo-Saxon faith

Discover the lives and miracles of saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald with Eadmer of Canterbury's insightful narratives.

This volume in Oxford Medieval Text contains Eadmer's Lives of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald, as well as the Miracles of Dunstan and Oswald. These three English saints, together with AEthelwold of Winchester, were key figures in the Benedictine revival of the tenth century, which saw a flowering of Anglo-Saxon religious, artistic, and literary culture. Eadmer of Canterbury (c.1060-c.1130), the secretary, confidant, and biographer of Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109), was one of the most important historians and biographers in the period after the Norman Conquest. His works, written in Latin, look back constantly to the Anglo-Saxon past, while at the same time they accurately reflect the present-day realities of the wider European society into which England had been forcibly integrated. Manuscripts of his Lives of the Saints circulated widely in both in England and France, but apart from his Life of Anselm they have been little studied, and have remained largely untranslated.The works newly edited and translated in this edition provide many insights into the wider political history of the pre- and post-Conquest periods, as well as important evidence for the cults of the saints in Canterbury and Worcester.
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  • Title

    Eadmer of Canterbury

  • Author

    Bernard J. Muir

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    April 2006

  • Weight

    736g

  • Page Count

    472

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199253807

  • ISBN-10

    0199253803

  • Eden Code

    1190684

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