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Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface (Katherine Barker); Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sherborne and the millennium (Timothy Reuter); King Aethelred's charter for Sherborne Abbey, 998 (Simon Keynes); Bishop Wulfsige's name: the writing and the spelling (Rebecca Rushforth and Katherine Barker); A note on Anglo-Saxon personal names (Simon Keynes); The monastic reform of the tenth century and Sherborne (David Farmer); The Revelation of St John: the last book of the Bible (Eric Woods); 'Thousand is a perfect number ...' quoth Aelfric of Cerne (Nicholas Campion); Anni Domini Computati or counting the years of the Lord 998-1998: the Sherborne Benedictine millennium (Katherine Barker); Wulfsige, monk of Glastonbury, abbot of Westminster, and bishop of Sherborne, (993-1002) (Simon Keynes); Saints' Lives in Anglo-Saxon Wessex (Barbara Yorke); The Life of St Wulfsige of Sherborne by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: a new translation with introduction, appendix and notes (Rosalind Love); Bishop Wulfsige's lifetime: Viking campaigns recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for southern England (Katherine Barker); Sherborne: Saxon Christianity be Westanwuda (Teresa Hall); Sherborne in AD 998: the Benedictine abbey and its estate (Katherine Barker); Benedictine books, writers and libraries, some surviving manuscripts from Sherborne and south-west England (Rachel Stockdale); Picturing the beginning of the Age of Saints: the iconography of last things (Katherine Barker); The dissolution of the abbey and after at Sherborne (Joseph Bettey); The Sherborne estate at Lyme (Katherine Barker); Sherborne Abbey c 1530 and Sherborne School 1550-2000: two drawings with numbered keys (J H P Gibb); Sherborne today: aspects of the Benedictine legacy (Katherine Barker); Constants and contrasts: monastic tradition and renewal (Dom Aidan Bellenger); St Benedict: guide and prophet in today's world (Esther de Waal); List of Further Reading; Index.
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Edited by Katherine Barker, David A Hinton and Alan Hunt
