An edition of the four sermons attributed to Candidus Witto
Christopher A. Jones
Abstract In 1891, Germain Morin identified a set of brief, anonymous Latin sermons that he controversially attributed to Alcuin’s Anglo-Saxon pupil named ‘Witto’ or ‘Wizo’ in Old English, ‘Candidus’ Latin. The texts question are considerable interest but have remained unprinted and thus scarcely known. present article offers an edition them, based on all the known manuscripts, as well translation commentary. An introductory discussion reviews state scholarship Candidus’s career writings, then examines detail content sources four texts, evidence supporting their attribution Candidus, some points comparison between items here edited other produced at Carolingian centres early ninth century.
Anglo-Saxon England