Aldhelm and Old St Peter's, Rome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11452000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Story (0000-0002-1022-9381, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Pages | 7-20 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anglo-Saxon England (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-6751 • E-ISSN: 1474-0532 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0263675110000037 |
| OpenAlex | W2079063824 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Aldhelm of Malmesbury was one of the most prolific and influential scholars of early Anglo-Saxon England. His contemporary fame rested partly on the fact that he had been a pilgrim to Rome. This article presents new evidence for Aldhelm's literary debt to the epigraphy of early Christian Rome. Two ninth-century manuscripts from Reims contain an anthology of six epigrams which derive largely from verse inscriptions in Old St Peter's. Aldhelm quoted two of these, de Petro and de Andrea , almost verbatim in his Carmina Ecclesiastica . It is likely that Aldhelm knew these verses from first-hand observation rather than via the pages of a manuscript sylloge
Archaeology · Art · Epigraphy · Literature · Ninth · Pilgrim · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |