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Title Aldhelm and Sherborne : essays to celebrate the founding of the bishopric / edited by Katherine Barker with Nicholas Brooks
Published Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : Distributed in the USA by David Brown, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Usque Domnoniam: the setting of Aldhelm's Carmen rhythmicum, literature, language and the liminal; Chapter 2: Usque Domnoniam: Sherborne, Glastonbury and the Expansion of Wessex; Chapter 3: New light on Aldhelm's letter to King Gerent of Dumnonia; Chapter 4: Aldhelm and the 'Epinal-Erfurt Glossary'; Chapter 5: Aldhelm's Irish and British Connections; Chapter 6: Faricii Abbatis Meldvnensis vita sancti Aldhelmi, Faricius' 'Life of St Aldhelm'
Chapter 7: Church dedications 'west of Selwood'Chapter 8: Th e Carmen rhythmicum: Aldhelm, poet and composer of carmina; Chapter 9: Aldhelm's Carmen rhythmicum with translations by Michael Lapidge; Index
Notes "Based on papers given at a Conference held at Sherborne in June 2005 to mark the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the bishopric by Aldhelm of Malmesbury."
Accompanying CD contains Aldhelm's Carmen Rhythmicum performed by Vonkale
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709 -- Congresses
SUBJECT Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709 fast
Aldhelm (von Malmesbury) swd
Subject HISTORY -- Medieval.
Diözese
Gründung
SUBJECT Sherborne (Dorset, England) -- Church history -- Congresses
Sherborne (Dorset, England) -- History -- Congresses
Subject England -- Sherborne (Dorset)
Sherborne Dorset
Genre/Form Church history
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Barker, Katherine.
Brooks, Nicholas
Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709. Carmen rhythmicum
Vonkale (Musical group)
ISBN 9781842178720
1842178725
9781842178706
1842178709