8th-Century Books (Book Guide) - 8th-Century Indian Books, 8th-Century History Books, Man'y Sh, Vita Sancti Cuthberti, Nihon Shoki (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 23. Chapters: 8th-century Indian books, 8th-century history books, Man'y sh, Vita Sancti Cuthberti, Nihon Shoki, Libri Carolini, Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, The Classic of Tea, Historia Langobardorum, Chronicle of 754, B hat Par ara Hor stra, Chach Nama, Royal Frankish Annals, Collectio canonum Hibernensis, Kaky Hy shiki, Takahashi Ujibumi, Book of Mulling, Verona Orational, Tongdian, Shitong, Lex Alamannorum, Shoku Nihongi, Jingxingji, Sang Shiiki, Annales Alamannici, Abrogans, Kaif s, T shi Kaden, Book of Dimma, Durham Cassiodorus, Vita Pardulfi. Excerpt: The Vita Sancti Cuthberti (English: "Life of Saint Cuthbert") is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria. It is probably the earliest extant saint's life from Anglo-Saxon England, and is an account of the life and miracles of Cuthbert (died 687), a Bernician hermit-monk who became bishop of Lindisfarne. Surviving in eight manuscripts from Continental Europe, it was not as well read in the Middle Ages as the prose version by Bede. It was however Bede's main source for his two dedicated works on Cuthbert, the "Metrical Life" and the "Prose Life." It was completed soon after the translation of Cuthbert's body in 698, at some point between 699 and 705. Compiled from oral sources available in Bernicia at the time of its composition, the Vita nonetheless utilized previous Christian writing from the Continent, particularly Gregory the Great's Dialogi and Sulpicius Severus' Vita Sancti Martini, as powerful influences. The name of the author is not known, though he was a monk of the monastery of Lindisfarne. It is often called the Anonymous Life to distinguish it from the "Prose Life" and the "Metrical Life" of Bede. There are four modern editions of the Anonymous Life, the latest by historian Bertram Colgrave. AElfflaed of Whitby, sister of.