Title: St Wulfsige and Sherborne : essays to celebrate the millennium of the Benedictine Abbey, 998-1998 /
Authors: Barker, Katherine.; Hinton, David Alban; Hunt, Alan, 1945-; Bournemouth University.
Publisher: Oxbow ; Available in the U.S. from David Brown Book Co.,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Wulfsige, Congresses.; Sherborne Abbey Congresses.; Monasticism and religious orders England History Congresses.; Sherborne (Dorset, England) Church history Congresses.; Sherborne (Dorset, England) Antiquities Congresses.
Abstract: "Based on papers given at the 1998 conference held in Sherborne and with a new translation by Rosalind Love of the Life of St. Wulfsige by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin." -- T.p.
Contents: Sherborne and the millennium / Timothy Reuter -- King Æthelred's charter for Sherborne Abbey, 998 / Simon Keynes -- Bishop Wulfsige's name : 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. John : 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 (c. 900-3), and bishop of Sherborne, (c. 993-1002) / Simon Keynes -- Saints' Lives in Anglo-Saxon Wessex / Barbara Yorke -- The life of St Wulfsige of Sherborne by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin : a new translation with introduction, appendix, and notes / Rosalind Love -- Bishop Wulfsige's lifetime : Viking campaigns recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for southern England / Katherine Barker -- Sherborne : 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 saints : 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 today : aspects of the Benedictine legacy / Katherine Barker -- Constants and contrasts : monastic tradition and renewal / Dom Aidan Bellenger -- St. Benedict : guide and prophet in today's world / Esther de Waal.