Research Catalog

Title

The 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the school of Archbishop Theodore.

Author

Stevenson, Jane.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

xiii, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• The 'Laterculus Malalianus', a historical exegesis of the life of Christ, appears to be the only complete text to survive from the hand of Archbishop Theodore at Canterbury. Its language, style and intellectual frame of reference are thus of great importance for establishing the nature and scope of teaching at Canterbury, the first school of Anglo-Saxon England.
• The principal lesson of the 'Laterculus' is that though the medium of the Canterbury education was Latin, the content was almost entirely Greek, drawing particularly on the methods of the school of Antioch. It presents a translation of and commentary on the 'Laterculus', and in the introduction Jane Stevenson examines the intellectual milieu of the work, argues the case for attribution to Theodore, and suggests the need for a complete rethinking of the basis of Anglo-Saxon culture.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ; v. 14

Uniform Title

• Laterculus Malalianus. English & Latin.
• Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ; 14.

Subjects

• Theodore, of Tarsus, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 602-690
• Monasticism and religious orders > Education > England > Canterbury > History
• Laterculus Malalianus
• England > Church history > 449-1066
• St. Augustine's Abbey (Canterbury, England) History

Note

• Includes Latin text and English translation of the Laterculus Malalianus.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.

ISBN

0521374618

LCCN

94033347

OCLC

• 31286481
• ocm31286481

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries