Eadmer of Canterbury : Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald

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by  Bernard J. Muir, Andrew J. Turner

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J. W. B I N N S W. J. B L A I R
R. L O V E D. D ' A V R A Y
E A D M E R OF C A N T E R B U R Y
LIVES AND M I R A C L E S OF
SAINTS ODA, D U N S T A N ,
AND OSWALD
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Eadmer of Canterbury
LIVES AND MIRACLES OF
SAINTS ODA, DUNSTAN,
AND OSWALD
EDITED AND T R A N S L A T E D BY
A N D R E W J . T U R N E R
AND
BERNARD J. MUIR
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A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
We would like to thank the Department of English and the Centre for
Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne for
providing constant support and resources. The Australian Research
Council made initial research possible with a grant in 1998 which
allowed the editors to visit libraries in England and France.
Libraries and institutions have provided access to manuscripts and
other support, without which this book could not have been
completed. We would like to thank the British Library, London,
the Bibliotheque nationale de France, the Institut de recherche et
d'histoire des textes, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the libraries of
Canterbury and Worcester Cathedrals, and St John's College,
Oxford. Special thanks are reserved, however, for Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge. We are very grateful for the generous assistance
given to us by the staff of the Parker library, and for the privilege of
access on a number of occasions to Eadmer's personal manuscript,
one of the treasures of the College's collection.
A number of scholars around the world provided prompt answers
to difficult questions, or else access to rare materials. We would like to
thank especially Elizabeth Teviotdale, Rodney Thomson, and Peter
Stokes. Elizabeth Mclntyre kindly gave us permission to cite her
Oxford D. Phil, thesis. Some initial information was derived from the
internet; in this context, we are indebted to the University of Utrecht
for the page they maintain on Helinand of Froidmont. We also
received useful technical assistance at various stages from Graeme
Smith of the University of Melbourne.
The series editors provided perceptive criticism of early versions of
this work, and saved us from blunders on a number of occasions; we
have in particular to thank John Blair, Michael Lapidge, and Michael
Winterbottom. Our copy-editors likewise need to be thanked for their
meticulous work, notably Bonnie Blackburn.
Finally, we would like to thank our families and close friends,
without whose constant support and encouragement we would not
have been able to complete this complex and exacting task.
VI A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
Pars superat coepti, pars est exhausta laboris.
Hie teneat nostras ancora iacta rates.
A.T.
B.M.
C O N T E N T S
A B B R E V I A T I O N S IX
I N T R O D U C T I O N xiii
I. Eadmer: Life and Writings xiii
II. Eadmer's Vita S. Odonis xxxv
1. The Date xxxv
2. Sources xxxvi
3. Extant Manuscripts xliv
4. Lost Manuscripts 1
5. Later Uses and Knowledge liii
6. The Relationship of the Manuscripts Ixi
7. Previous Editions Ixv
III. Eadmer's Vita and Miracula S. Dunstani Ixvii
1. The Date Ixvii
2. Sources Ixix
3. Extant Manuscripts Ixxvii
4. Lost Manuscripts Ixxxvi
5. Later Uses and Knowledge Ixxxvii
6. The Relationship of the Manuscripts xcvi
7. Previous Editions ciii
IV. Eadmer's Vita and Miracula S. Oswaldi cvi
1. The Date cvi
2. Sources cvi
3. Extant Manuscripts cxvi
4. Later Uses and Knowledge cxxi
5. The Relationship of the Manuscripts cxxviii
6. Previous Editions cxxxii
V. Editorial Procedures in the Present Edition cxxxiii
VITA S. ODONIS i
VITA S. D V N S T A N I 41
M I R A C V L A S. D V N S T A N I 160
viii C O N T E N T S
VITA S. OSWALDI 213
M I R A C V L A S. OSWALDI 290
INDEX OF SOURCES 325
GENERAL INDEX 328
A B B R E V I A T I O N S
AASS Acta sanctorum (Antwerp and Brussels, 1643-1894)
AB Analecta Bollandiana
Adelard Adelard, Vita Sancti Dunstani, in Memorials,
PP- 53-68
AG William of Malmesbury, De antiquitate Glastonie
ecclesie, ed. J. Scott (Woodbridge, 1981)
Annales monastici Annales monastici, ed. H. R. Luard, 5 vols. (RS,
1864-9)
Anselm, epist. Anselm, Epistulae, in Sancti Anselmi opera omnia,
ed. F. S. Schmitt, 6 vols. (Edinburgh and Rome,
1940-61)
ASC Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
ASE Anglo-Saxon England
B. B., Vita Sancti Dunstani, in Memorials, 3—52
BHL Bibliotheca hagiographica Latino,, 2 vols. (Brussels,
1898-1901); Novum supplementum, ed. H. Pros
(1986)
BL British Library
BNF Bibliotheque nationale de France
Breuiloquium Eadmer, Breuiloquium uitae S. Wilfridi, in Vita
S. Wilfridi, pp. 162-83
Brooks and Cubitt, St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed.
Oswald N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (London, 1996)
Byrhtferth, Vita Byrhtferth, Vita S. Oswaldi, in HCY i. 399-475
S. Oswaldi
Chron. Ram. Chronicon abbatiae Rameseiensis, ed. W. Dunn
Macray (RS, 1886)
Councils Councils and Synods with Other Documents Relating
to the English Church, i: A.D. 871-1204, ed.
D. Whitelock, M. Brett, and C. N. L. Brooke, 2
parts (Oxford, 1981)
DACL Dictionnaire d'archeologie chretienne et de liturgie, 15
vols. in 30 (Paris, 1907-53)