A neglected early-ninth-century manuscript of the Lindisfarne Vita S. Cuthberti
D. A. Bullough
Without the anonymous Lindisfarne Vita S. Cuthberti , written less than two decades after saint's death in 687, our knowledge of aspects Iona-Lindisfarne tradition early Northumbrian church and Cuthbert's life would be even more limited it is. Its medieval is, however, very different from that Bede's (prose) version Life, which, with its greater sense literary form, composed superior Latin, some additional or better evidence about hero (although often omitting telling details), effectively drove earlier work land origin. The vita's later, post-1100, manuscript testimonies are exclusively a closely-related group continental legendaries (passionals); one extant pre-1066 English copy was among books gifted to Saint-Vaast, Arras, c. 1070, by former abbot Bath, Sæwold.
Anglo-Saxon England