Aldhelm’s library
Andy Orchard|Richard Gameson
The evidence of the Leiden Glossary, which shares with Aldhelm a detailed knowledge works Rufinus, specifically Historia ecclesiastica. It has been argued that may have fostered Northumbrian royal family, and at period educated by Adomnán in Iona. Elsewhere composite text Epistola ad Acircium gestures towards strikingly eclectic selection authors. By contrast, for example, almost all echoes Paulinus Nola or Alcimus Avitus detected to date come later Carmende virginitate. Caelius Sedulius is echoed especially freely, particular concentration on Books Carmen paschale, indeed startling focus first 100 lines work. Moreover, chooses rhetorically embellished passage derived from Isidore's Synonyma this very theme form closing words his Acircium.
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