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  • I.18 - Bede, Letter to Bishop Ecgberht

  • from Eighth Century
  • Edited with Introduction and Notes by Carolinne White, University of Oxford
  • Preface by Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 220-225

  • Summary

    Bede in his letter to Bishop Ecgberht of York expresses his worries over the greed and lack of Latin learning among the clergy, and over lay control in certain monasteries. He stresses the need for the basic texts of the Christian faith to be translated into English. Here he shows that it was not the case that all the clergy were competent in Latin.

  • I.21 - The Letters of Boniface’s Circle

  • from Eighth Century
  • Edited with Introduction and Notes by Carolinne White, University of Oxford
  • Preface by Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 247-269

  • Summary

    The letters of Boniface’s circle, as published by M. Tangl, includes both letters to and from Boniface himself during his time as a missionary in Germany, and letters to and from his friends and associates. Here 3 letters from Anglo-Saxon women are included, two of them to their friend Boniface. Also a letter from Boniface to Ecgberht bishop of York in which he complains of the immoral behaviour of king Æthelbald of Mercia, and a letter to Boniface from Æthelbert of Kent, thanking him for his mission work, sending him a raincoat and asking for two falcons to be sent from Germany.