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标题：Historia de Sancto Cuthberto: a History of Saint Cuthbert and a Record of his Patrimony.
作者：Gordon-Taylor, Benjamin
期刊名称：Medium Aevum
印刷版ISSN：0025-8385
出版年度：2003
期号：March
语种：English
出版社：Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
摘要：ed. Ted Johnson South, Anglo-Saxon Texts 3 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002). x + 158 pp.; 1 plate; 1 figure; 2 maps. ISBN 0-85991-627-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The importance of the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto lies partly in the fact that it is the earliest extant source for a number of events in the history of that body of monks which eventually settled in Durham in 995 with the remains of the patron saint whose name, as the title of this relatively short Latin text reveals, became synonymous with the community and its fortunes. That final move is not recorded, but what we have is a fascinating, if chronologically uneven, account of the fortunes and acquisitions of the community prior to it, together with some early eleventh-century material. Ted Johnson South's critical text and translation is a useful and meticulous contribution to the scholarly study of patron saints and their significance for monastic communities in the early Middle Ages, and a crucial source for the history of the north-east of England. As a work of literature it is an often stirring account of the deeds of kings and clerics in the age of Beowulf.

Historia de Sancto Cuthberto: a History of Saint Cuthbert and a Record of his Patrimony.

Gordon-Taylor, Benjamin

ed. Ted Johnson South, Anglo-Saxon Texts 3 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002). x + 158 pp.; 1 plate; 1 figure; 2 maps. ISBN 0-85991-627-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The importance of the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto lies partly in the fact that it is the earliest extant source for a number of events in the history of that body of monks which eventually settled in Durham in 995 with the remains of the patron saint whose name, as the title of this relatively short Latin text reveals, became synonymous with the community and its fortunes. That final move is not recorded, but what we have is a fascinating, if chronologically uneven, account of the fortunes and acquisitions of the community prior to it, together with some early eleventh-century material. Ted Johnson South's critical text and translation is a useful and meticulous contribution to the scholarly study of patron saints and their significance for monastic communities in the early Middle Ages, and a crucial source for the history of the north-east of England. As a work of literature it is an often stirring account of the deeds of kings and clerics in the age of Beowulf.