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The Early Lives of St Dunstan
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Preface
Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
I: The Life of st Dunstan
II: B., Vita S. Dvnstani
III: Sdelard of Ghent, Lectiones in Depositione S. Dvnstani
IV: Later Hagiography of St Dunstan
V: Editorial Principles
B., VITA DVSTANI
ADELARD OF GHENT, LECTIONES IN DEPOSITIONE S. DVNSTANI
APPENDICES
I: Passages in Ms. D of B.'s Vita S. Dvnstani in which Rhymed Prose Replaces the Verse or Supplements the Original Prose
II: Letters Illustrating the Career of B.
III: Letter of Abbot Wulfric to Abbo of Fleury Concerning B.'s Vita S. Dunstani
IV: Dunstan's Latin Poetry
Bibliography
Index of Quotations and Allusions
General Index

About the Author

Michael Lapidge was formerly Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on the literature of the Anglo-Saxons (written both in English and Latin) and also on Latin authors of the early Middle Ages. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Munich) and of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome).
Michael Winterbottom taught for five years at University College London as Lecturer in Latin and Greek (1962-7). He was for twenty five years Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Worcester College, Oxford (1967-1992), before moving to Corpus Christi College as Corpus Professor of Latin. He retired in 2001. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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It is a truly remarkable piece of scholarship for which historians and literary critics alike will be grateful to its editors for many years to come.
*Levi Roach, Ecclesiastical History. Vol. 64.2*

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