The Collectio Canonum Hibernensis and the Literature of the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform
Shannon Ambrose
The Collectio Canonum Hibernensis is an eighth-century Hiberno-Latin compilation of patristic florilegia that was brought to England by Breton ecclesiastics and employed Anglo-Saxon reformers as a canonical resource. This article addresses the Irish product subsumed into corpus continental regulatory materials which then circulated throughout centers assisted in articulation ideological framework for English Benedictine Reform tenth eleventh centuries. discussion delineates ways transmitted centers, company with alike (including Amalarian liber officialis, Regularis Concordia Wulfstan’s Canon Law Collection), shows text scholarship Oda Canterbury (the Constitutiones), Ælfric Eynsham Letter Brother Edward), Wulfstan York Institutes Polity).
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