Aldhelm: The Prose Works

by Michael Herren and Aldhelm

Translation with notes of Aldhelm's famous treatise on virginity, and his less well-known letters.

Aldhelm, born c.640 in Wessex, and becoming abbot of Malmesbury and later bishop of Sherborne, was the first English man of letters; up to 1100, his prose writings were the most widely read of any Latin literature produced in Anglo-Saxon England. His surviving prose works include a long treatise De virginitate, and a number of letters; these in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843841991
• ISBN13: 9781843841999
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"