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Herman the Archdeacon and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin - Miracles of St Edmund

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  • Abbreviations

  • Introduction

  • i: St Edmund, his Cult, and his Cult Centre

  • ii: Herman and his Career

  • iii: The Date of Herman's Miracles

  • iv: The Miracles: Design, Sources, and Execution

  • v: Manuscripts

  • vi: Previous Editions

  • vii: A Poem: On the Heresy, Simony

  • viii: The revised Miracles, by Goscelin

  • ix: The Reception of the Miracle collections (to c. 1130)

  • x: List of Sigla of Manuscripts and Other Witnesses

  • xi: Editorial Procedures

  • Miracles of St Edmund, by Herman

  • Miracles of St Edmund, by Goscelin

  • Appendix I: Miracles of St Edmund (the Shorter Version)

  • Appendix II: The Missing Miracles

  • Appendix III: On the Heresy, Simony

  • Concordance of Chapters in the Edited Collections

  • Bibliography

  • Index of Quotations and Allusions

  • Index of Rare and Significant words

  • General Index



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Dr Tom Licence, formerly a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and medieval editor for the journal History. He has published widely on aspects of monasticism and ecclesiastical history and is best known for his monograph Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200 (OUP, 2011).


Summary

Brand new edited translations of the Miracles of St Edmund; two major Latin miracle collections compiled by Herman the Archdeacon, and an anonymous hagiographer who, Licence proposes, was Goscelin of Saint-Bertin.

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this is an exciting and an exemplary addition to Oxford Medieval Texts

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