Writing The Wilton Women Goscelin's Legend Legend Of Edith And Liber Confortatorius

This collection of essays and translations brings together two closely related works by an important but little studied late eleventh-century author, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. Over 30 hagiographical and polemical works are attributed to him, with varying degrees of certainty; about half of these are lives of Anglo-Saxon women saints, many of them still unedited. His "Legend of Edith is of exceptional historical value--apart from Bede's "History, this represents the only near contemporary narrative account of Anglo-Saxon women's communities that we have. Goscelin is chiefly known as the author of "Liber confortatorius, one of the earliest surviving works of spiritual instruction addressed to a female recluse (c.1082). Written at a time when the solitary religious life was only just beginning to undergo a new wave of popularity, Goscelin's works are remarkably forward looking in their conception of the religious life as an interior and individual relationship with the deity. The essays in this collection draw,the two texts into a close relationship and present a closely integrated account of some of their most striking and central aspects.Hollis, S. is the author of 'Writing The Wilton Women Goscelin's Legend Legend Of Edith And Liber Confortatorius' with ISBN 9782503514369 and ISBN 2503514367.