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  3. The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 October 2009
      11 March 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511483295
      9780521581554
      9780521030526
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483295
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.775kg, 484 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.738kg, 484 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Church History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England (25)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Church History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England (25)
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    This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester (963–84), of the most influential school in late Anglo-Saxon England. The vital early stages of Æthelwold's scholarly career are explored for the first time, particularly his formative years in King Æthelstan's entourage and his period of study at Glastonbury. Light is shed on the contribution which Æthelstan's cosmopolitan court made to intellectual and spiritual life. Based on a wide range of evidence Dr Gretsch assigns to Æthelwold 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.

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    ‘… a major contribution to our understanding of the mental life of late Anglo-Saxon England’.

    Source: The English Historical Review

    ‘Every now and then a book is published which changes our frame of reference, Mechthild Gretsch’s monograph … is one of these; it is exciting to read, and it advances our understanding in ways that could not have been anticipated …’

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