Aldhelm and Sherborne
Subtitle: essays to celebrate the founding of the bishopric
By: edited by Katherine Barker with Nicholas Brooks.
Contributors: Barker, Katherine.; Brooks, Nicholas.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781842173572
Subjects: Aldhelm, -- Saint, -- 640?-709 -- Congresses; Sherborne (Dorset, England) -- Church history -- Congresses; Sherborne (Dorset, England) -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: This collection of papers follows on from a conference, held in Sherborne in June 2005, marking the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the bishopric by Aldhelm of Malmesbury. This volume looks at the work of Aldhelm and the foundation of the see of Sherborne in the wider context of his career and his world.

At the Sherborne symposium, Katherine Barker commissioned a performance of Aldhelm's Carmen rhythmicum by a Finnish rune-singer and an instrumentalist. The large audience at Sherborne were transfixed by the experience of listening, with the text and a translation before them, to a musical recitation and performance of this long Latin poem, which - perhaps for the first time in a thousand years - conveyed something of its emotional power. The rhythms and message of Aldhelm's poem came alive in a remarkable way and readers of this volume can gain much of the same experience by listening to the accompanying CD, with the text and translation of the Carmen rhythmicum before them. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.

"Based on papers given at a Conference held at Sherborne in June 2005 to mark the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the bishopric by Aldhelm of Malmesbury."