Research Catalog

Title

Bede's Latin poetry [electronic resource] / edited and translated by Michael Lapidge.

Author

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Details

Additional Authors

Lapidge, Michael

Description

1 online resource (xvi, 605 pages)

Summary

"Although his historical and exegetical works are better known, Bede's small corpus of Latin poetry was widely read and imitated throughout the Middle Ages. Yet in spite of its importance as a keystone in medieval Latin literature, there has not previously been an attempt to collect and edit this corpus of verse in light of all the surviving manuscript evidence. Bede's Latin Poetry is the first edition of his poetic corpus based on all surviving manuscripts. It includes new editions of his two major poems, the 'Verses on Judgement Day' (Versus de die iudicii) and the metrical 'Life of St Cuthbert' (Vita metrica S. Cudbercti), and also includes reconstructions of his two other poetic collections - a book of epigrams and a book of hymns - which were not preserved intact during the Middle Ages and which have had to be assembled from various disparate sources. The editions of all these works are provided with translations and detailed notes, revealing Bede's debts to earlier poets, and illustrating his remarkable skill in understanding the intricacies of Latin verse composition. A series of appendices discuss and print many other poems which have been erroneously attributed to Bede by earlier editors, and include the first edition of a hitherto unknown early draft of his metrical 'Life of St Cuthbert'."-Front flap.

Series Statement

Oxford medieval texts

Uniform Title

• Bede's Latin poetry (Online)
• Oxford medieval texts.

Alternative Title

Bede's Latin poetry (Online)

Subject

• Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 > Translations into English
• Cuthbert, Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne, approximately 635-687 > Early works to 1800
• Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
• Bede the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 > Poetry
• Bede the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 > Translations into English
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [557]-576) and indexes.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Language (note)

• Poems in Latin and parallel English translation, editorial material in English.

Contents

Bede as Latin poet -- The Versvs de die ivdicii -- The metrical Vita S. Cvdbercti -- The Liber epigrammatvm -- The Liber hymnorvm -- Versvs de die ivdicii (Latin and English) -- Vita metrica S. Cvdbercti (Latin and English) -- Liber epigrammatvm (reconstructed ; Latin and English) -- The Liber hymnorvm (reconstructed ; Latin and English) -- Appendices: The first redaction of Bede's Vita metrica S. Cudbercti ; Anonymous hymns doubtfully attributed to Bede ; Carmina computistica attributed in manuscript to Bede ; Poems attributed to Bede in a medieval Latin poetic anthology ; Hexameter verses on the observance of the four ember fasts ; Bede's "Death song".

LCCN

2018956927

OCLC

ssj0002991511

Author

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.

Title

Bede's Latin poetry [electronic resource] / edited and translated by Michael Lapidge.

Imprint

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Edition

First edition.

Series

Oxford medieval texts

Oxford medieval texts.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [557]-576) and indexes.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Language

Poems in Latin and parallel English translation, editorial material in English.

Connect to:

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Lapidge, Michael.

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Poetry.

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Poetry. English.

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Vita Sancti Cuthberti. (Lapidge). 2019. Container of (expression)

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Vita Sancti Cuthberti. English. (Lapidge). 2019. Container of (expression)