Description
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 Æthelwold 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.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Bernard J. Muir trained at The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto and The University of Toronto. He has taught at the University of Melbourne since 1982 where he is a Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Andrew Turner was educated in Melbourne, and completed his first degree in Australia and Germany before enrolling on a degree in Classics at the University of Melbourne. He completed his doctorate in 2000, dealing with Latin prose literature of the Flavian period. He has taught Latin at both university and school level.
