RT Book
T1 The life of Bishop Wilfrid
A1 Eddius Stephanus
A2 Colgrave, Bertram
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1985
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883455072
AB The Life of Wilfrid offers us a graphic portrait of one of the most forceful characters in the history of the English Church: a man courageous and energetic yet at the same time litigious, ostentatious and overbearing, his life punctuated by restless travels and the most violent quarrels. Of noble birth, Wilfrid (c.634–709) gained his first experience of monastic life as a boy at Lindisfarne. Thereafter we find him at various times, crossing Gaul, staying in Lyons, visiting Rome, back in England at York, Ripon or Hexham, preaching to heathens in Sussex or Frisia, quarrelling with kings and bishops, imprisoned in Northumbria, again in Rome seeking papal support for his claims, founding monasteries in the Midlands and at last, in his old age, reconciled to those with whom he had earlier quarrelled so bitterly. Partisan but highly detailed, the Life was probably written within a decade of the saint's death. It is a remarkable account of a powerful personality who aroused affection and dislike in almost equal proportions.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BX4700.W5
SN 9780511552946
K1 Wilfrid : Saint, Archbishop of York : 634-709
K1 Wilfrid
K1 Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) : England : Translations into English.
K1 Christian saints : England : Biography : Early works to 1800.
K1 Anglo-Saxons : Biography : Early works to 1800.
K1 Anglo-Saxons : Biography : Early works to 1800
K1 Christian saints : England : Biography : Early works to 1800
K1 Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) : England : Translations into English
K1 Wilfrid ; Saint, Archbishop of York ; 634-709
K1 Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) ; England ; Translations into English
K1 Christian saints ; England ; Biography ; Early works to 1800
K1 Anglo-Saxons ; Biography ; Early works to 1800
K1 Quelle
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511552946