Texts

Letter from Aldhelm to Gereint

Aldhelm
  • Latin
  • prose
  • Anglo-Latin texts, Letter
Letter written by Aldhelm, then abbot of Malmesbury, to Gereint, king of Dumnonia, and to his sacerdotes.
Speaker/Addressee
Addressee: Gereint [king of Dumnonia]Gereint ... king of Dumnonia
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Author
Aldhelm
Aldhelm
(d. 709)
abbot of Malmesbury and later, bishop of Sherborne; known as an author of a number of elaborate Latin tracts in prose and in verse

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Language
  • Latin
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Anglo-Latin textsAnglo-Latin texts
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LetterLetter
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Ehwald, Rudolf, Aldhelmi opera, MGH Scriptores. Auctores antiquissimi, 15, Berlin: Weidmann, 1919.
Dmgh.de: <link>
480–486
[tr.] Herren, Michael, “Letters”, in: Michael Lapidge, and Michael Herren, Aldhelm: the prose works, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979..

Secondary sources (select)

Probert, Duncan, “New light on Aldhelm’s letter to King Gerent of Dumnonia”, in: Katherine Barker, and Nicholas Brooks (eds), Aldhelm and Sherborne: essays to celebrate the founding of the bishopric, Oxford: Oxbow, 2010. 110–128.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2014, last updated: January 2024