The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine ReformThis book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by Ęthelwold, Bishop of Winchester (963–84), of the most influential school in late Anglo-Saxon England. The vital early stages of Ęthelwold's scholarly career are explored for the first time, particularly his formative years in King Ęthelstan's entourage and his period of study at Glastonbury. Light is shed on the contribution which Ęthelstan's cosmopolitan court made to intellectual and spiritual life. Based on a wide range of evidence Dr Gretsch assigns to Ęthelwold two influential texts: an interlinear translation of the psalter and a vast corpus of Old English glosses to Aldhelm's prose De virginitate. These glosses are shown to have played a pivotal role in the development of the vernacular as a medium for scholarly discourse. |
Contents
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3 The vocabulary of the Royal Psalter | 42 |
lexical and stylistic links | 89 |
5 The Aldhelm glosses | 132 |
6 Word usage in the Royal Psalter the Rule and the Aldhelm glosses | 185 |
7 Ęthelwold and the Old English Rule | 226 |
8 Ęthelwold and the Royal Psalter | 261 |
11 Conclusion | 425 |
APPENDIX I Ęthelwolds life and career | 428 |
APPENDIX II The Royal Psalter at Canterbury | 430 |
APPENDIX III The Gernrode fragments of an Old Saxon psalm commentary | 432 |
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Common terms and phrases
A-type gloss Abingdon adjective Ęlfric Ęthelstan's court Ęthelwold Aldhelm glosses Anglian Anglian dialect Anglo-Saxon England attested Benedictine Benedictional Bishop Bosworth Psalter Brussels glosses Byrhtferth Canterbury Cassiodorus Catalogue CCCC charters Christ Church Cleo commentary copied corpus D-type Deshman dialect doublets Dumville Dunstan ecclesia edition Etymologiae evidence example exemplar Expositio Gallicanum Glastonbury Glossator's Gneuss Gretsch hermeneutic hermeneutic style i-mutation ibid idem interpretamenta Keynes King Ęthelstan's Lambeth Psalter Lapidge Latin text lemma lemmata lexical liturgical loanwords manuscript Minster monastic noun occurs Old English glosses Old English Rule Old English texts Old High German Old Minster Old Saxon origin poem poetic presumably prose De uirginitate psalms Psalterium Regula Regularis concordia Romanum Royal Glossator Royal Psalter Royal Psalter gloss Salisbury Psalter scholars scholia scribe scrudnian Square Minuscule stylistic superbia surviving tenth century textual translation verb vernacular verse Vespasian Psalter Vita vocabulary West Saxon words Wulfstan