The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin 2 Volume Hardback Set

A two-volume anthology of Latin texts, with English translation, on many different subjects written by the people of medieval Britain.

Carolinne White (Edited by), Catherine Conybeare (Preface by)

9781316637319, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 1 February 2024

1048 pages
25 x 17.6 x 6.5 cm, 2.13 kg

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. Excerpts are taken from Bede and other historians, from the letters of women written from their monasteries, from famous documents such as Domesday Book and Magna Carta, and from accounts and legal documents, all revealing the lives of individuals at home and on their travels across Britain and beyond. It offers an insight into Latin writings on many subjects, showing the important role of Latin in the multilingual society of medieval Britain, in which Latin was the primary language of written communication and record and also developed, particularly after the Norman Conquest, through mutual influence with English and French. The thorough introductions to each volume provide a broad overview of the linguistic and cultural background, while the individual texts are placed in their social, historical and linguistic context.

Felix, The Life of Guthlac
I. 21 The Letters of Boniface's circle: letter from Eangyth to Boniface (14)
Leoba to Boniface (29)
Boniface to bishop Ecgberht of York (75)
Æthelberht II of Kent to Boniface (105)
Berhtgyth to her brother (147)
I. 22 Æthelbald of Mercia: charter to abbess Eadburg, BACS 4 (St.Augustine's, Canterbury) no. 51
I. 23 Willibald of Mainz, The Life of Boniface
I. 24 Hugeburc of Heidenheim, The Life of Willibald of Eichstätt
I. 25 Alchfrith, Prayer to the Virgin Mary
I. 26 Alcuin, The Life of Willibrord (prose and verse)
I. 27 Alcuin, On grammar
I. 28 The coming of the Vikings and the destruction of Lindisfarne (793): Alcuin, Letter 16 to the king of Northumbria
Symeon of Durham
Libellus de exordio
Ninth Century
I. 29 Æthelwulf: Poem on the abbots of his monastery
I. 30 Historia Brittonum: the History of the British
I. 31 A late ninth-century charter, BACS 18 (Christ Church, Canterbury) no. 93
I. 32 Asser, On the deeds of Alfred
Tenth Century
I. 33 A tenth-century charter, BACS 6 (Selsey) no. 16
I. 34 Regularis Concordia
I. 35 Literary texts associated with St. Swithun: Lantfred, The translation and miracles of St. Swithun
Wulfstan of Winchester, A metrical account of St. Swithun
A sequence on Swithun and Birinus (Anon.)
I. 36 Æthelweard, Chronicle
I. 37 A treaty between Æthelred the Unready and the Viking leader
I. 38 Ælfric, Preface to the first book of Catholic Homilies
I. 39 Ælfric, Educational writings: Grammar
Glossary
Colloquy
Ælfric Bata, Colloquy
I. 40 Saints' Lives from around the millennium
I. 41 Three accounts of King Alfred and the cakes: First Life of St. Neot
Annals of St. Neot
the Chronicle attributed to John of Wallingford
I. 42 In praise of Queen Emma
Volume 2. 1066-1500
Introduction
II. 1 The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath: the Bayeux Tapestry
William of Malmesbury, History of the kings of England
Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History
II. 2 Charters of William the Conqueror
II. 3 Goscelin of Canterbury, the Book of Consolation
II. 4 Domesday Book: Henry of Huntingdon, History of the English
Richard FitzNigel, The Dialogue of the Exchequer
Domesday Book
II. 5 The Life of St. Swithun: Anonymous (prose)
Anonymous (verse)
II. 6 The Life of St. Birinus: Anonymous (prose)
Henry of Avranches (verse)
II. 7 Anselm of Canterbury: Letter to his friend Gundulf
Proslogion
Twelfth Century
II. 8 Eadmer, The Life of St. Anselm
II. 9 Sæwulf: a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
II. 10 Twelfth-century law codes: Quadripartitus and the Laws of Henry I
II. 11 Historiography of the early twelfth century: the disaster of the White Ship as recounted by Eadmer, William of Malmesbury, Orderic Vitalis, Symeon of Durham, Hugh the Chanter and Henry of Huntingdon
II. 12 Geoffrey of Monmouth: History of the kings of Britain
II. 13 Two twelfth-century Lives of St. Frideswide
II. 14 Ælred of Rievaulx: Letter regarding the nun of Watton
II. 15 William Fitzstephen: a description of London
II. 16 Thomas Becket: Correspondence between Thomas Becket and the Empress Matilda
Edward Grim and William Fitzstephen give accounts of Becket's murder
II. 17 Glanvill: On the laws and customs of the kingdom of England
II. 18 Richard of Devizes: Chronicle of the reign of Richard I
II. 19 Walter Map, Courtiers' trifles
II. 20 Hugh Nonant: Letter on the downfall of Chancellor William de Longchamp
Thirteenth Century
II. 21 Gerald of Wales: An account of Gerald's achievements
The Jewel of the Church
II. 22 Jocelin of Brakelond, Chronicle of the deeds of Abbot Samson
II. 23 Medical texts: Adelard of Bath, Questions on Natural Science
the Salernitan Questions
II. 24 Matthew Paris's Chronica Majora: King John offers his kingdom to the Caliph of Morocco
II. 25 Magna Carta
II. 26 Roger of Montbegon: a life in administrative documents
II. 27 Edmund of Abingdon: Specul

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]