Research Catalog

Title

The afterlife of St Cuthbert : place, texts and Ascetic tradition, 690-1500 / Christiania Whitehead, University of Warwick and Lausanne.

Author

Whitehead, Christiania, 1969-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Details

Description

xii, 320 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eight centuries, from his earliest depictions in anonymous and Bedan vitae, through twelfthcentury ecclesiastical histories and miracle collections produced at Durham, to his late medieval appearances in Latin meditations, legendaries, and vernacular verse. Whitehead reveals the coherence of these texts as one tradition, exploring the way that ideologies and literary strategies persist across generations. An innovative addition to the literature of insular spirituality and hagiography, The Afterlife of St Cuthbert emphasises the related categories of place and asceticism. It charts Cuthbert's conceptual alignment with a range of institutional, masculine, northern, and national spaces, and examines the distinctive characteristics and changing value of his ascetic lifestyle and environment - frequently constituted as a nature sanctuary - interrogating its relation to his other jurisdictions"--

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in medieval literature.

Subject

• Cuthbert, Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne, approximately 635-687 > In literature
• Cuthbert, Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne, approximately 635-687
• 1100-1500
• English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
• Latin literature, Medieval and modern > History and criticism
• English literature > Middle English
• Latin literature, Medieval and modern
• Literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Blessings on pregnant seals : constructing Cuthbert's asceticism in his anonymous and Bedan vitae and the Historia ecclesiastica, 690-740 -- Travels with my coffin : the dislocation and defence of the community of St. Cuthbert in the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto, 793-1050 -- The bishop in the rain : celebrating the new order in Symeon of Durham's Libellus de exordio, Old English Durham and the Capitula de miraculis et translationibus sancti Cuthberti, 1066-1140 -- Expansions and contractions of saintly space in two Cuthbertine miracle collections : Reginald of Durham's Libellus de admirandis, and De mirabilibus, 1150-1210 -- Godric of Finchale, Bartholomew of Farne and the "Irish" Libellus de ortu Sancti Cuthberti : three eremitic responses to St. Cuthbert, 1150-1210 -- Delimiting sanctity in two meditations from Farne Island : the Exortacio ad contemplacionem and the Meditaciones of the Monk of Farne, 1210-1370 -- Vernacular epitomes and encyclopedias : southern legendaries and the metrical Life of St. Cuthbert, 1270-1500.

Call Number

JFE 21-3994

ISBN

• 9781108490351
• 1108490352

LCCN

2020024847

OCLC

1156415069

Author

Whitehead, Christiania, 1969- author.

Title

The afterlife of St Cuthbert : place, texts and Ascetic tradition, 690-1500 / Christiania Whitehead, University of Warwick and Lausanne.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

Cambridge studies in medieval literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1100-1500

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781108787345

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3994