num_pages: 288
description: In April 1998 a one-day conference was held in Sherborne to mark the one-thousandth anniversary of the founding of the Benedictine Abbey by St Wulfsige through the granting of a charter by King Æthelred II. The papers presented here cover various aspects of the Benedictine foundation, as well as examining the history and archaeology of Sherborne in its wider context. Of particular importance in this volume is the inclusion of a new translation (the first complete one in English) of the Life of St Wulfige, written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin not long after Wulfsige's death.Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsPreface ( Katherine Barker )Acknowledgements Sherborne and the millennium ( Timothy Reuter )King Æthelred's charter for Sherborne Abbey, 998 ( Simon Keynes )Bishop Wulfsige's the writing and the spelling ( Rebecca Rushforth and Katherine Barker )A note on Anglo-Saxon personal names ( Simon Keynes )The monastic reform of the tenth century and Sherborne ( David Farmer )The Revelation of St the last book of the Bible ( Eric Woods )'Thousand is a perfect number ...' quoth Ælfric of Cerne ( Nicholas Campion )Anni Domini Computati or counting the years of the Lord 998-1998: the Sherborne Benedictine millennium ( Katherine Barker )Wulfsige, monk of Glastonbury, abbot of Westminster, and bishop of Sherborne, (993-1002) ( Simon Keynes )Saints' Lives in Anglo-Saxon Wessex ( Barbara Yorke )The Life of St Wulfsige of Sherborne by Goscelin of a new translation with introduction, appendix and notes ( Rosalind Love )Bishop Wulfsige's Viking campaigns recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for southern England ( Katherine Barker ) Saxon Christianity be Westanwuda ( Teresa Hall )Sherborne in AD 998: the Benedictine abbey and its estate ( Katherine Barker )Benedictine books, writers and libraries, some surviving manuscripts from Sherborne and south-west England ( Rachel Stockdale )Picturing the beginning of the Age of the iconography of last things ( Katherine Barker )The dissolution of the abbey and after at Sherborne ( Joseph Bettey )The Sherborne estate at Lyme ( Katherine Barker )Sherborne Abbey c 1530 and Sherborne School 1550-2000: two drawings with numbered keys ( J H P Gibb )Sherborne aspects of the Benedictine legacy ( Katherine Barker )Constants and monastic tradition and renewal ( Dom Aidan Bellenger )St guide and prophet in today's world ( Esther de Waal )List of Further ReadingIndex
language: English
title: St Wulfsige and Sherborne: Essays to Celebrate the Millennium of the Benedictine Abbey, 998-1998
titlecomplete: St Wulfsige and Sherborne: Essays to Celebrate the Millennium of the Benedictine Abbey, 998-1998 (Bournemouth University School of Conservation Sciences Occasional Paper)
publisher: Oxbow Books