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Author:

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735, author.

Title:

Bede's Latin poetry / edited and translated by Michael Lapidge.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Clarendon Press ;

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvi, 605 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735--Translations into English.
Cuthbert,--Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne,--approximately 635-687--Early works to 1800.
Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
Poetry.
Translations.
Poetry.

Other Authors:

Lapidge, Michael, translator. translator.
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Poetry.
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Poetry. English.
Container of (expression) Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Vita Sancti Cuthberti. (Lapidge). 2019.
Container of (expression) Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Vita Sancti Cuthberti. English. (Lapidge). 2019.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-576) and indexes.

Contents:

Bede as Latin poet -- The Versvs de die ivdicii -- The metrical Vita S. Cvdbercti -- The Liber epigrammatvm -- The Liber hymnorvm -- Versvs de die ivdicii (Latin and English) -- Vita metrica S. Cvdbercti (Latin and English) -- Liber epigrammatvm (reconstructed ; Latin and English) -- The Liber hymnorvm (reconstructed ; Latin and English) -- Appendices: The first redaction of Bede's Vita metrica S. Cudbercti ; Anonymous hymns doubtfully attributed to Bede ; Carmina computistica attributed in manuscript to Bede ; Poems attributed to Bede in a medieval Latin poetic anthology ; Hexameter verses on the observance of the four ember fasts ; Bede's "Death song".

Summary:

"Although his historical and exegetical works are better known, Bede's small corpus of Latin poetry was widely read and imitated throughout the Middle Ages. Yet in spite of its importance as a keystone in medieval Latin literature, there has not previously been an attempt to collect and edit this corpus of verse in light of all the surviving manuscript evidence. Bede's Latin Poetry is the first edition of his poetic corpus based on all surviving manuscripts. It includes new editions of his two major poems, the 'Verses on Judgement Day' (Versus de die iudicii) and the metrical 'Life of St Cuthbert' (Vita metrica S. Cudbercti), and also includes reconstructions of his two other poetic collections - a book of epigrams and a book of hymns - which were not preserved intact during the Middle Ages and which have had to be assembled from various disparate sources. The editions of all these works are provided with translations and detailed notes, revealing Bede's debts to earlier poets, and illustrating his remarkable skill in understanding the intricacies of Latin verse composition. A series of appendices discuss and print many other poems which have been erroneously attributed to Bede by earlier editors, and include the first edition of a hitherto unknown early draft of his metrical 'Life of St Cuthbert'."-- Front flap of dust jacket.

Series:

Oxford medieval texts

ISBN:

0199242771
9780199242771

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1066069317

LCCN:

2018956927

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)