Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey
Rodney M. Thomson
The Benedictine abbey at Malmesbury in Wiltshire was one of that select group English houses which could trace its history back to the golden age epitomized and chronicled by Bede. To Bede's older contemporary Aldhelm ( ob. c. 709) belongs most credit for setting recently founded community on feet making it a by-word throughout British Isles pursuit divine secular learning. 2 During his abbacy eclipsed reputations Irish schools Hadrian's Canterbury. At only other point long did attain comparable reputation learning, when housed monk William 1095–1143), whose career, intellectual interests writings were consciously modelled upon examples Bede Aldhelm.
Anglo-Saxon England