Mechthild Gretsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5807245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mechthild Gretsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mechthild |
| FAMILY NAME | Gretsch |
| SIGNATURE | GRETSCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historiography and literary patronage in late Anglo-Saxon England
On numerous occasions Ælfric of Cerne, and of Eynsham, refers to the long-standing patrons of his career and oeuvre, Ealdorman Æthelweard and his son Æthelmær. Ælfric is, however, our sole witness to this patronage. As a result, we get only his view of their relationship, and there are blind spots which, in our enthusiasm for the unusual wealth of personal information from an Anglo-Saxon author, we tend to ignore. In this article I examine Ealdor…
England and the Continent in the Tenth Century
Journal Article England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876–1947), ed. David Rollason, Conrad Leyser, and Hannah Williams Get access England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876–1947), ed. David Rollason, Conrad Leyser and Hannah Williams (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010; pp. xxvi + 573. Eur 115). M. Gretsch M. Gretsch University of Göttingen Search for other wor…
Saints Edith and Aethelthryth
The Wilton Chronicle starts with the history of Wilton Abbey, embedded in a survey of Anglo-Saxon history, up to the reign of King Edgar. After the loss of an unknown number of folios in the unique manuscript, the text continues with a Life of St Edith, Edgar's daughter (lines 1023–4977). Both Edith and her mother Wulfthryth were nuns at Wilton, where Edith was eventually venerated as the abbey's principal saint. The Chronicle is followed by a Li…
Signs of Devotion
This monograph traces the cult of St Æthelthryth of Ely from its inception in the eighth century to the pre-Reformation period by analysing a number of its texts and artefacts; however, the rationale behind the selection of material is not stated explicitly. The first chapter examines passage by passage Bede's prose account of Æthelthryth (HE IV.16 [18]) and his abecedarian, epanaleptic hymn in her praise (HE IV.17 [19]), and provides a gendered …
Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters
Æthelthryth of Ely in a lost calendar from Munich
A fragment of a calendar, written s. viii 2/4 , either in England or in an Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent was preserved in Munich until 1939, but was subsequently lost. While still extant, the fragment had been printed, and from this edition it can be seen that, in addition to universally culted saints, the entries included the obits of five Anglo-Saxons, Æthelthryth among them. After a brief review of how the commemorations of the universal…
The Taunton Fragment
The Taunton Fragment (now Taunton, Somerset, Somerset County Record Office, DD/SAS C/1193/77) consists of four leaves containing portions of brief expositions or homilies on the pericopes for four successive Sundays after Pentecost. In the Fragment, brief passages in Latin regularly alternate with the Old English translations of these passages. The manuscript to which the four leaves once belonged was written probably at some point around or afte…
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57
Manuscripts can be studied, first, and most obviously, as objects of material culture. Such study may provide valuable information concerning the parchment, the arrangement of quires, the type of script, the letter forms, the decoration, and so on. Manuscripts can also be studied as witnesses to the intellectual preoccupations of the scholars who compiled and copied them: such preoccupations are most apparent in the selection and glossing of the …
Winchester vocabulary and Standard Old English
Following an extended period of neglect, the early 1840s saw a dramatic revival of interest in English church music and its history, which coincided with the period of heightened religious sensitivity between the publication of Newman‘s Tract 90 in early 1841 and his conversion to Roman Catholicism in October 1845. This article examines the activities and writings of three men who made important contributions to the reformation of the music of th…
The Junius Psalter gloss
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 27 (S.C. 5139), the Junius Psalter, was written, Latin text and Old English gloss, probably at Winchester and presumably during the reign of King Edward the Elder. Junius 27 is one of the twenty-nine complete or almost complete psalters written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England which have survived. (In addition to these twenty-nine complete psalters, eight minor fragments of further psalters are still extant.) This …
The language of the ‘Fonthill Letter’
The ‘Fonthill Letter’ is a document sent by Ordlaf, ealdorman of Wiltshire from 897 onwards, to King Edward the Elder (899–924). It was intended to be used as evidence in a lawsuit which one Æthelhelm Higa had instituted against the bishop of Winchester, claiming possession of five hides at Fonthill in Wiltshire, which Ealdorman Ordlaf had given to the bishop in exchange for five hides in another part of Wiltshire. The letter traces the intricate…
Æthelwold's translation of the Regula Sancti Benedicti and its Latin exemplar
St Benedict wrote his Rule for monastic communities in the first half of the sixth century. It must have reached England in the course of the seventh century and was translated into Old English prose by Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester, in about 970 at the request of King Edgar and Qeen Ælfthryth. Æhelwold was one of the leaders of the tenth-century Benedictine reform in England and his translation of the Rule is among his major contributions to t…
Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters
The language of the ‘Fonthill Letter’
The ‘Fonthill Letter’ is a document sent by Ordlaf, ealdorman of Wiltshire from 897 onwards, to King Edward the Elder (899–924). It was intended to be used as evidence in a lawsuit which one Æthelhelm Higa had instituted against the bishop of Winchester, claiming possession of five hides at Fonthill in Wiltshire, which Ealdorman Ordlaf had given to the bishop in exchange for five hides in another part of Wiltshire. The letter traces the intricate…
Historiography and literary patronage in late Anglo-Saxon England
On numerous occasions Ælfric of Cerne, and of Eynsham, refers to the long-standing patrons of his career and oeuvre, Ealdorman Æthelweard and his son Æthelmær. Ælfric is, however, our sole witness to this patronage. As a result, we get only his view of their relationship, and there are blind spots which, in our enthusiasm for the unusual wealth of personal information from an Anglo-Saxon author, we tend to ignore. In this article I examine Ealdor…
Signs of Devotion
This monograph traces the cult of St Æthelthryth of Ely from its inception in the eighth century to the pre-Reformation period by analysing a number of its texts and artefacts; however, the rationale behind the selection of material is not stated explicitly. The first chapter examines passage by passage Bede's prose account of Æthelthryth (HE IV.16 [18]) and his abecedarian, epanaleptic hymn in her praise (HE IV.17 [19]), and provides a gendered …
The Taunton Fragment
The Taunton Fragment (now Taunton, Somerset, Somerset County Record Office, DD/SAS C/1193/77) consists of four leaves containing portions of brief expositions or homilies on the pericopes for four successive Sundays after Pentecost. In the Fragment, brief passages in Latin regularly alternate with the Old English translations of these passages. The manuscript to which the four leaves once belonged was written probably at some point around or afte…
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57
Manuscripts can be studied, first, and most obviously, as objects of material culture. Such study may provide valuable information concerning the parchment, the arrangement of quires, the type of script, the letter forms, the decoration, and so on. Manuscripts can also be studied as witnesses to the intellectual preoccupations of the scholars who compiled and copied them: such preoccupations are most apparent in the selection and glossing of the …
Æthelwold's translation of the Regula Sancti Benedicti and its Latin exemplar
St Benedict wrote his Rule for monastic communities in the first half of the sixth century. It must have reached England in the course of the seventh century and was translated into Old English prose by Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester, in about 970 at the request of King Edgar and Qeen Ælfthryth. Æhelwold was one of the leaders of the tenth-century Benedictine reform in England and his translation of the Rule is among his major contributions to t…
Æthelwold's translation of the Regula Sancti Benedicti and its Latin exemplar
St Benedict wrote his Rule for monastic communities in the first half of the sixth century. It must have reached England in the course of the seventh century and was translated into Old English prose by Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester, in about 970 at the request of King Edgar and Qeen Ælfthryth. Æhelwold was one of the leaders of the tenth-century Benedictine reform in England and his translation of the Rule is among his major contributions to t…
The language of the ‘Fonthill Letter’
The ‘Fonthill Letter’ is a document sent by Ordlaf, ealdorman of Wiltshire from 897 onwards, to King Edward the Elder (899–924). It was intended to be used as evidence in a lawsuit which one Æthelhelm Higa had instituted against the bishop of Winchester, claiming possession of five hides at Fonthill in Wiltshire, which Ealdorman Ordlaf had given to the bishop in exchange for five hides in another part of Wiltshire. The letter traces the intricate…
The Junius Psalter gloss
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 27 (S.C. 5139), the Junius Psalter, was written, Latin text and Old English gloss, probably at Winchester and presumably during the reign of King Edward the Elder. Junius 27 is one of the twenty-nine complete or almost complete psalters written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England which have survived. (In addition to these twenty-nine complete psalters, eight minor fragments of further psalters are still extant.) This …
Winchester vocabulary and Standard Old English
Following an extended period of neglect, the early 1840s saw a dramatic revival of interest in English church music and its history, which coincided with the period of heightened religious sensitivity between the publication of Newman‘s Tract 90 in early 1841 and his conversion to Roman Catholicism in October 1845. This article examines the activities and writings of three men who made important contributions to the reformation of the music of th…
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57
Manuscripts can be studied, first, and most obviously, as objects of material culture. Such study may provide valuable information concerning the parchment, the arrangement of quires, the type of script, the letter forms, the decoration, and so on. Manuscripts can also be studied as witnesses to the intellectual preoccupations of the scholars who compiled and copied them: such preoccupations are most apparent in the selection and glossing of the …
The Taunton Fragment
The Taunton Fragment (now Taunton, Somerset, Somerset County Record Office, DD/SAS C/1193/77) consists of four leaves containing portions of brief expositions or homilies on the pericopes for four successive Sundays after Pentecost. In the Fragment, brief passages in Latin regularly alternate with the Old English translations of these passages. The manuscript to which the four leaves once belonged was written probably at some point around or afte…
Æthelthryth of Ely in a lost calendar from Munich
A fragment of a calendar, written s. viii 2/4 , either in England or in an Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent was preserved in Munich until 1939, but was subsequently lost. While still extant, the fragment had been printed, and from this edition it can be seen that, in addition to universally culted saints, the entries included the obits of five Anglo-Saxons, Æthelthryth among them. After a brief review of how the commemorations of the universal…
Signs of Devotion
This monograph traces the cult of St Æthelthryth of Ely from its inception in the eighth century to the pre-Reformation period by analysing a number of its texts and artefacts; however, the rationale behind the selection of material is not stated explicitly. The first chapter examines passage by passage Bede's prose account of Æthelthryth (HE IV.16 [18]) and his abecedarian, epanaleptic hymn in her praise (HE IV.17 [19]), and provides a gendered …
Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters
Saints Edith and Aethelthryth
The Wilton Chronicle starts with the history of Wilton Abbey, embedded in a survey of Anglo-Saxon history, up to the reign of King Edgar. After the loss of an unknown number of folios in the unique manuscript, the text continues with a Life of St Edith, Edgar's daughter (lines 1023–4977). Both Edith and her mother Wulfthryth were nuns at Wilton, where Edith was eventually venerated as the abbey's principal saint. The Chronicle is followed by a Li…
Historiography and literary patronage in late Anglo-Saxon England
On numerous occasions Ælfric of Cerne, and of Eynsham, refers to the long-standing patrons of his career and oeuvre, Ealdorman Æthelweard and his son Æthelmær. Ælfric is, however, our sole witness to this patronage. As a result, we get only his view of their relationship, and there are blind spots which, in our enthusiasm for the unusual wealth of personal information from an Anglo-Saxon author, we tend to ignore. In this article I examine Ealdor…
England and the Continent in the Tenth Century
Journal Article England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876–1947), ed. David Rollason, Conrad Leyser, and Hannah Williams Get access England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876–1947), ed. David Rollason, Conrad Leyser and Hannah Williams (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010; pp. xxvi + 573. Eur 115). M. Gretsch M. Gretsch University of Göttingen Search for other wor…
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