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The Vita Sancti Wilfrithi or Life of St Wilfrid (spelled "Wilfrid" in the modern era [2]) is an early 8th-century hagiographic text recounting the life of the Northumbrian bishop, Wilfrid. Although a hagiography , it has few miracles, while its main concerns are with the politics of the Northumbrian church and the history of the monasteries of ...
Wilfrid is also mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, [33] but as the Chronicle was probably a 9th-century compilation, the material on Wilfrid may ultimately have derived either from Stephen's Vita or from Bede. [34] Another, later, source is the Vita Sancti Wilfrithi written by Eadmer, a 12th-century Anglo-Norman writer and monk from ...
Stephen's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi is the only documentary source on Saint Wilfrid, aside from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. It was written shortly after Wilfrid's death in 709. Stephen was asked to write the Vita by Acca of Hexham, one of Wilfrid's followers, who later became a bishop and succeeded Wilfrid in the See of ...
The author of the eighth-century hagiographic text Vita Sancti Wilfrithi ("Life of Saint Wilfrid"). Telfair Hodgson: March 14, 1840 – September 11, 1893 An American Episcopal priest and academic administrator. He was the dean of the Theological Department at Sewanee: The University of the South from 1878 to 1893, and vice chancellor from 1879 ...
As a work of hagiography, Vita Sancti Wilfrithi is not an ideal historical source and it has been suggested that its partisan treatment of Northumbrian history inspired Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica. [12] Various details of Stephen's account of the battle are likely to have been exaggerated, overstating the extent of Ecgfrith's victory. [13]
Vita Sancti Wilfrithi This page was last edited on 4 April 2024, at 11:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Theodore's life can be divided into the time before his arrival in Britain as Archbishop of Canterbury, and his archiepiscopate. Until recently, scholarship on Theodore had focused on only the latter period since it is attested in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English (c 731), and also in Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi (early 700s), whereas no source directly mentions Theodore ...
Vita Sancti Wilfrithi; Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii; Vitae Patrum; Vitas Patrum Emeritensium; W. Samuel of Dabra Wagag; Wetzer-Welte Kirchenlexikon