The Vita Ædwardi: The Politics of Poetry at Wilton Abbey

Impersonating Hypsipyle: Statius’ Thebaid and Medieval Lament1

“…On the learning of Edith and her connections both with the court and with royal Anglo-Saxon nunneries, see Tyler (2009) esp. 152-5.…”

Rewriting English Literary History 1042–1215

“…They do not purport to mark definitive watersheds in English literary history. Beginning in 1042 with the accession of the Normandy‐raised Edward the Confessor emphasises that English contacts with Normandy predated the Conquest (Musset ‘Apports anglais’; Lewis), contacts which gave a European outlook to much 11th‐century English writing (Tyler ‘Fictions of Family’; ‘Talking about History’; ‘ Vita Ædwardi ’; ‘OE to OF’; van Houts ‘Flemish Contribution’). The article elects to end in 1215 with the Fourth Lateran Council which introduced mandatory auricular confession and (literary history holds) gave special impetus to the production of vernacular religious texts (Watson 828; Millett ‘ Ancrene Wisse Group’ esp.…”

“…Nugatory information like Serlo of Bayeux’s description of Wilton as fæcunda versibus urbs (‘a city eloquent in poetry’) is available for various locations (Wright Anglo‐Latin Satirical Poets ii. 233; qtd Tyler ‘OE to OF’ 174), but remains to be compiled (on Exeter, e.g. see Treharne ‘Producing a Library; Bishops and Texts’; but esp.…”