Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- I.3 The Earliest Charters
- I.4 Theodore of Canterbury
- I.5 Descriptions of the Holy Land
- I.6 Aldhelm
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
I.6 - Aldhelm
from Seventh Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- I.3 The Earliest Charters
- I.4 Theodore of Canterbury
- I.5 Descriptions of the Holy Land
- I.6 Aldhelm
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
Aldhelm of Malmesbury wrote important works on grammar and metre. Here excerpts are taken from his famous prose work on Virginity, with which one may compare his version in hexameter verse.Also from one of the few remaining letters, this one on the subject of education and the rivalry between the Irish and the English in this field. Aldhelm’s distinctively rheorical and inventive Latin prose was very influential in the following centuries.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 83 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024