Felix’s Life of St Guthlac and Its Two Old English Versions

Taro Ishiguro is Professor at Meiji University, Tokyo. He co-edited Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura (Peter Lang, 2022) Jane Roberts MRIA, FSA, FEA is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of London, where she is a Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies. She is the author of A Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500 (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, Liverpool University Press 2015) and co-edited the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press 2009).

• IntroductionFelix, Vita S. Guthlaci: Content and Immediate ContextFelix, Vita S. Guthlaci: Influences and ResonancesAnonymous Prose Translation: Homily and Life within the Development of an Early Vernacular Literary TraditionLiturgy and Music: Contribution of the Vita to the Round of the Church YearGuthlac in Chronicles and Early Historical WritingsAppendix 1: Manuscripts of Felix’s Vita S. Guthlaci and a Note on Editorial HistoryAppendix 2: List of Influences and Resonances in the VitaAppendix 3: Record of Guthlac Inscriptions at CrowlandAppendix 4: Added Ending in a Crowland Copy of the VitaAppendix 5: Homily and Life: Manuscripts and a Note on Editorial HistoryFelix, Vita S. GuthlaciEdited Text and Facing TranslationCommentaryGlossaryVercelli Homily and Vespasian Life Edited Texts and Facing TranslationsCommentaryGlossaryIndex of Manuscripts CitedSelect Bibliography