Turner, Andrew J., ed., trans.; Muir, Bernard J., ed., trans., Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald (Oxford: Clarendon,2006).
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- Eadmer of Canterbury
900 - 1000
- Latin
- Original language included
- Translated into English
facing page
- England
Canterbury
- Hagiography
- Clergy - Monks, Nuns, Friars
- Clergy - Priests, Bishops, Canons
- Historiography
- Saints
- Index
- Introduction
Lengthy (134 pp) introduction provides a thorough discussion of Eadmers life and works, as well as individual chapters devoted to each of the three Lives. Within these introductions, the editors consider dating, sources, extant manuscripts, lost manuscripts, later uses and knowledge of the Lives, the relationship of the manuscripts, and previous editions of the Lives.
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These saints lives were written by Eadmer of Canterbury (c.1060-c. 1124), an English historian, theologian, and ecclesiastic who is best known for his Life of St. Anselm of Canterbury. This volume contains the lives of St. Dunstan (909-988), an archbishop of Canterbury known for his legendary cleverness against the devil; St. Oda (d. 958), also an archbishop of Canterbury; and St. Oswald, Archbishop of York (d. 992), nephew of St. Oda. Eadmers writings are particularly interesting because they highlight the tension within the English Church between Anglo-Saxons and Normans during the period just after the Conquest, as Eadmer is always concerned to emphasize unity within the church.