In an era of warlords, when life was often short and brutal, St. Wulsige brought some degree of refuge, both spiritual and temporal, in his founding of a Benedictine House at Sherborne. A thousand years later those who still seek the peace of understanding have contributed materials to this collection, including papers delivered at the April 1998 commemorative conference and the first complete translation into English of the Life of St. Wulfsige written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. Topics of the 21 papers collected include the charter for Sherborne Abbey, the writing and spelling of Wulfsige's and other Anglo-Saxon personal names, tenth-century monastic reform, saints' lives in Anglo-Saxon Wessex, the effects of Viking campaigns, the abbey and its estates at its founding, Benedictine books of the time and place, iconography, the dissolution of the abbey, and aspects of the Benedictine legacy in Sherborne today. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company.
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In an era of warlords, when life was often short and brutal, St. Wulsige brought some degree of refuge, both spiritual and temporal, in his founding of a Benedictine House at Sherborne. A thousand years later those who still seek the peace of understanding have contributed materials to this collection, including papers delivered at the April 1998 commemorative conference and the first complete translation into English of the Life of St. Wulfsige written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. Topics of the 21 papers collected include the charter for Sherborne Abbey, the writing and spelling of Wulfsige's and other Anglo-Saxon personal names, tenth-century monastic reform, saints' lives in Anglo-Saxon Wessex, the effects of Viking campaigns, the abbey and its estates at its founding, Benedictine books of the time and place, iconography, the dissolution of the abbey, and aspects of the Benedictine legacy in Sherborne today. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In April 1998 a one-day conference was held in Sherborne to mark the one-thousandth anniversary of the founding of the Benedictine Abbey by St Wulfsige through the granting of a charter by King Aethelred II. The papers presented here cover various aspects of the Benedictine foundation, as well as examining the history and archaeology of Sherborne in its wider context. Of particular importance in this volume is the inclusion of a new translation (the first complete one in English) of the Life of St Wulfige, written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin not long after Wulfsige's death.