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The Vita Sancti Cuthberti (English: "Life of Saint Cuthbert") is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria.It is probably the earliest extant saint's life from Anglo-Saxon England, and is an account of the life and miracles of Cuthbert (died 687), a Bernician hermit-monk who became bishop of Lindisfarne.
[26] [27] Laistner lists twenty manuscripts, including one fragment; a 20th-century edition that includes a discussion of nineteen of the manuscripts is Werner Jaager, Bedas metrische Vita Sancti Cuthberti (1935). [25] Life of St. Cuthbert (prose) Bede wrote two lives of St Cuthbert; this one is in prose and was composed in about 721. [25]
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne [a] (c. 634 – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition.He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, [b] today in northern England and southern Scotland.
The Vita Wilfrithi can be dated reasonably securely between 709, the year of Wilfrid's death, and c. 720. [11] The latter date, c. 720, is the approximate date of the Vita Sancti Cuthberti, a text which the Vita Wilfrithi quotes, [12] and indeed imitates so often that one historian has used the word "plagiarism". [13]
The early-12th-century De Miraculis et Translationibus sancti Cuthberti ("On the Miracles and Translation of St Cuthbert") is possibly the next text. [66] De Miraculis is a list of seven miracles performed by St Cuthbert, the first four of which are taken from the Historia , and expanded significantly with more complex prose, probably without ...
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Cuncacestre was the centre of Christianity for much of the northeast, because it was the seat of the Bishop of Lindisfarne, making the church a cathedral. [6] The diocese stretched between the boundaries of Danelaw at Teesside in the south, of Alba at Lothian in the north and the Irish Sea in the west.
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