The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 1, 450-1066

CAROLINNE WHITE was a member of the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. She collaborated on the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, completed in 2013, is the author of Christian Ideas of Friendship in the Fourth Century (1992) and has translated Early Christian Lives (1997), The Rule of Benedict (2007) and Lives of Roman Christian Women (2010) for Penguin Classics. Catherine Conybeare is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. She is an authority on the Latin texts of late antiquity, and is the author of four books, including The Laughter of Sarah: Biblical Exegesis, Feminist Theory, and the Concept of Delight (2013). She is also the editor of a new series for Cambridge University Press, Cultures of Latin from Antiquity to the Enlightenment.

• Introduction; Fifth Century; I. 1 Patrick, Confession; SIXTH CENTURY; I. 2 Gildas, The ruin of Britain; SEVENTH CENTURY; I. 3 The earliest charters: Chertsey: BACS 19 (Chertsey Abbey) no.1; Thanet: BACS 17 (Christ Church, Canterbury) no. 2; I. 4 Theodore of Canterbury, Laterculus Malalianus; and the Poem in praise of Hædde; I. 5 Descriptions of the Holy Land: Adomnán and Bede on the holy places; I. 6 Aldhelm, On virginity (prose); Letter 5 to Heahfrith; I. 7 Riddles: Aldhelm; Tatwine; Hwætberht; Boniface; EIGHTH CENTURY; I. 8 The Life of Gregory the Great (Anon.of Whitby); I. 9 Burginda, Letter to a young man; I. 10 Bede, Educational writings: on grammar and rhetoric; and on the reckoning of time; I. 11 Two Lives of Cuthbert: Anonymous (prose); Bede (verse and prose); I. 12 Wealdhere, Letter to Berhtwald of Canterbury; I. 13 Berhtwald of Canterbury, Letter about a slave girl; I. 14 Ælfflæd of Whitby, Letter to an abbess in Germany; I. 15 Eddi, The Life of Wilfrid; I. 16 Two Lives of Ceolfrith: Anonymous and Bede; I. 17 Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; I. 18 Bede, Letter to bishop Ecgberht; I. 19 Cuthbert of Jarrow: Letter on the death of Bede; and Letter to Lul; I. 20 Felix, The Life of Guthlac; I. 21 The Letters of Boniface's circle: letter from Eangyth to Boniface (14); Leoba to Boniface (29); Boniface to bishop Ecgberht of York (75); Æthelberht II of Kent to Boniface (105); Berhtgyth to her brother (147); I. 22 Æthelbald of Mercia: charter to abbess Eadburg, BACS 4 (St.Augustine's, Canterbury) no. 51; I. 23 Willibald of Mainz, The Life of Boniface; I. 24 Hugeburc of Heidenheim, The Life of Willibald of Eichstätt; I. 25 Alchfrith, Prayer to the Virgin Mary; I. 26 Alcuin, The Life of Willibrord (prose and verse); I. 27 Alcuin, On grammar; I. 28 The coming of the Vikings and the destruction of Lindisfarne (793): Alcuin, Letter 16 to the king of Northumbria; Symeon of Durham; Libellus de exordio; NINTH CENTURY; I. 29 Æthelwulf: Poem on the abbots of his monastery; I. 30 Historia Brittonum: the History of the British; I. 31 A late ninth-century charter, BACS 18 (Christ Church, Canterbury) no. 93; I. 32 Asser, On the deeds of Alfred; TENTH CENTURY; I. 33 A tenth-century charter, BACS 6 (Selsey) no. 16; I. 34 Regularis Concordia; I. 35 Literary texts associated with St. Swithun: Lantfred, The translation and miracles of St. Swithun; Wulfstan of Winchester, A metrical account of St. Swithun; A sequence on Swithun and Birinus (Anon.); I. 36 Æthelweard, Chronicle; I. 37 A treaty between Æthelred the Unready and the Viking leader; I. 38 Ælfric, Preface to the first book of Catholic Homilies; I. 39 Ælfric, Educational writings: Grammar; Glossary; Colloquy; Ælfric Bata, Colloquy; I. 40 Saints' Lives from around the millennium; I. 41 Three accounts of King Alfred and the cakes: First Life of St. Neot; Annals of St. Neot; the Chronicle attributed to John of Wallingford; I. 42 In praise of Queen Emma.

'These volumes will long remain valuable for illustrating one branch of the Latin tradition, for revealing the work of important and neglected writers in this tradition and for providing an enjoyable and rewarding access to these writers.' Charles Burnett, International Journal of the Classical Tradition