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A redaction of the long Latin version of the Visio Pauli, known for having English or Insular connections. Irish connections or even origins have also been suggested on the basis of some Hibernicisms and affinities with Hiberno-Latin texts.

Vita Richarii (Alcuin)

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Alcuin

Alcuin

(d. 804)

English clergyman, scholar and poet.

Alcuin’s revised version of the vita of Richarius (Riquier), an early 7th-century Frankish nobleman and founder of the monastery of Centula (Saint-Riquier, Picardy).

Vita sancti Cungari (Wells fragment)

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Life of St Cyngar (Lat. Cungarus) of Congresbury, a good part of which is preserved in a fragment held at Wells Cathedral. In the text, Cungarus is presented as the son of the emperor of Constantinople, who did not wish to follow in his father’s footsteps. He fled, ultimately reaching Britain, where he founded a small chapel at Congresbury, Somerset (suo vocabulo Cungrisberia nominatum), and to judge by the capitula, another place of worship in Wales. BHL Suppl. 2013. A fuller version of the text was printed in the Nova legenda Angliae.

Vita sancti Dubricii (Benedict of Gloucester)

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Benedict of Gloucester

Benedict of Gloucester

(fl.c. 1150)

English Benedictine monk at St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester, who wrote a life of St Dyfrig.

Latin life of St Dyfrig (Dubricius) written by the twelfth-century Benedictine monk Benedict of Gloucester.

Vita sancti Ethbini (John of Tynemouth)

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John of Tynemouth

John of Tynemouth

(fl. 14th century)

English historian and hagiographer, known for having produced a chronicle, the Historia aurea, and a collection of saints’ lives, the Sanctilogium Anglia, Wallia, Scotiae et Hiberniae, which would form the basis of the Nova legenda Angliae.

A short redaction of the vita of St Ethbin, here called Egbinus, from the hagiographic collection of John of Tynemouth.

Vita sancti Gregorii Magni (Whitby version)

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Anonymous [Whitby author of Vita sancti Gregorii]Anonymous ... Whitby author of Vita sancti Gregorii

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Anonymous Life of St Gregory the Great, written by a monk or nun of Streoneshealh (Whitby abbey, modern Yorkshire) before 714. It is the first known Life of the saint and highlights the role of the Gregorian mission in the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England. BHL 3637.

Vita sancti Guthlaci

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Felix [abbot of Crowland]Felix ... abbot of Crowland

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prose Life of the Mercian saint Guthlac (d. 715)

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