avg_rating: 4.33
name: Aldhelm
about: Aldhelm, born c.640 in Wessex, and becoming abbot of Malmesbury and later bishop of Sherborne, was the first English man of letters; up to 1100, his prose writings were the most widely read of any Latin literature produced in Anglo-Saxon England.
death_date: 0709-05-21 00:00:00