History and Literature in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval West: Studies in Intertextuality
Neil Wright
Part 1 Gildas: Gildas's geographical perspective - some problems prose style and its origins a note on Lanio fulve did Gildas read Orosius? reading survey Rufinus, Gregory of Nazianzus Gildas. 2 Texts intertextuality: Arator's use Caelius Sedulius re-examination the Hisperica Famina further Vergilian borrowings in Breton hagiography Carolingian period knowledge Christian Latin poets historians early medieval Brittany Bede Virgil imitation poems Paulinus Nola Anglo-Latin verse postscript Aldhelm, Gildas, Acircius Alfred burned cakes Vita prima sancti Neoti, telesinus, Juvenal.