Images of Sanctity in Eddius Stephanus' Life of Bishop Wilfrid, an Early English Saint's Life
Images of Sanctity in Eddius Stephanus' Life of Bishop Wilfrid, an Early English Saint's Life

Author: William Trent Foley

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780773495135

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This study shows that the narrative sources for early Anglo-Saxon church history reveal more than insights into the ecclesiastical and dynastic struggles of the time. It explores the Life of Bishop Wilfrid, an 8th-century account of a famous Anglo-Saxon abbot and bishop of Hexham, with an eye to exposing and analyzing the convictions of Wilfrid's biographer. Argues that the portrayal of Wilfrid's seemingly abrasive brand of sanctity approximates more closely the New Testament image of the holy man than other early English portrayals, especially the first portrayal of St. Cuthbert. This study should interest specialists in church and medieval history, patristics, and theological students and laypersons who have never considered that medieval Saints' Lives, like the Gospels, are compelling theological texts in their own right.

Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer
Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer

Author: Eadmer

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13:

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This is an edition of Edmer of Canterbury's 12th-century Vita Sancti Wilfridi. The introduction examines the influence of 12th century ecclesiastical politics on the development of the cult of St Wilfrid.

Pilgrimage of Passion
Pilgrimage of Passion

Author: Elizabeth Longford

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Published: 2007-03-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845113445

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Wilfred Scawen Blunt, 1840-1922, was one of England's true eccentrics: a wildly individual, larger-than-life personality who was as admired as he was disliked. A writer, poet, rebel, politician and explorer, his controversial life was in every sense a 'pilgrimage of passion'. He campaigned tirelessly for the independence of Egypt, India and Ireland (for which he was imprisoned) and, before marrying Byron's granddaughter, he travelled widely as a diplomat embarking on passionate love affairs and upsetting the Establishment - whether the British Empire or conventional morality. George Wyndham, Lord Curzon and Oscar Wilde were just some of the figures who attended Blunt's famous literary Crabbet Club and young Arabists like T.E. Lawrence and St John Philby regarded him as a prophet. During his lifetime, and for many years after, no anthology was complete without his poems. Based on Wilfrid Blunt's complete diaries and papers, Elizabeth Longford has produced a riveting biography of this most compelling man.