An Inventory of Early Guthlac Materials

Roberts, Jane

doi:10.1484/j.ms.2.306081

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“…80 If so, perhaps Abbot Kenulf was actually another of the lost early abbots of Medeshamstede? In the later Middle Ages, the arm and the whip of St Guthlacin an ivory casewere treasured relics at Thorney Abbey, 81 and we have already seen that Thorney was a tenth-century refoundation, closely associated with AEthelwold, and considered itself to have origins amongst Medeshamstede's anchorites (above). Could such circumstantial links represent evidence that AEthelwold translated these key Guthlac relics from Peterborough to Thorney?…”

Section: Peterborough and Crowlandmentioning

confidence: 96%

Guthlac at Medeshamstede?

Everson

Stocker

2023

Early Medieval Europe

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This paper proposes that the early monastery at Medeshamstede (later Peterborough) was the sponsor and supporter of the hermit saint, Guthlac, on the fenland island of Crowland. It locates that initiative in the early Benedictine practice in England. It is argued that Medeshamstede subsequently sustained the saint’s pre‐Viking cult, and is the best candidate for the location where Felix produced the saint’s Life. The potential impact of this proposition on received understandings of the relationships between the monasteries of Medeshamstede and Ely and the kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia – played out through the local polity of the Gyrwe – is noted. Early stone sculpture at Fletton is interrogated as potential evidence for the cult of Guthlac at Medeshamstede but found wanting.

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Section: Peterborough and Crowlandmentioning

confidence: 96%

Guthlac at Medeshamstede?

Everson

Stocker

2023

Early Medieval Europe

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“…Before moving on to the discussion of the usage of the terms from the lexical domains of BEAUTY and AESTHETIC PLEASURE in texts under analysis, a brief description of these texts is required. Jane Roberts (1970) carries out a comprehensive overview of the available early © Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de Murcia.…”

Section: Saint Guthlac In Old English Prose Texts and Its Latin Sourcementioning

confidence: 99%

Translating Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci into Old English

Gómez

2023

Int. j. Engl. stud.

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Based on some of the most recent studies on aesthetic emotions, the purpose of this paper is to examine how aesthetic concepts and aesthetic experience are translated and adapted from Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci into Old English prose. Looking into the Old English terms from the lexical domains of beauty and aesthetic pleasure, this paper highlights very specific translation practices on the part of, especially, an Old English author, who implements an additional aesthetic dimension that is not generally found in the Latin source. This paper highlights an apparent hybridity between the cognitive and the sensory in these literary texts, and it also stresses how one of these authors in particular frequently uses sensory evaluations to describe the complex and abstract ideas that are typical of the hagiographical genre.

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“…By contrast, what is known to history and toponymy is that Guthlac was much venerated and commemorated in the East Midland parts of the country and more widely, and that churches and monasteries were established with him as their patron. 46 It may then follow that Guthlac's patria and the Guthlacingas 'tribe' might have been named after him, and that either Felix or his interpreters might have put the cart before the horse.…”

Section: Style and Translationmentioning

confidence: 99%