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Reginald de Durham. La vie et les miracles de saint Godric de Finchale. Édité et traduit par Margaret Coombe

Ill. Représentation de Godric de Finchale (XVIe siècle), British Library, MS Cotton Faustina B, VI, ii, fol. 16v.

Reginald de Durham, The Life and Miracles of Saint Godric, Hermit of Finchale, M. Coombe (éd. et trad.), Oxford, Oxford University Press (Oxford Medieval Texts), 2022.

Présentation de l’éditeur

Godric of Finchale was a hermit, merchant, and medieval saint. His life was recorded by Benedictine monk Reginald of Durham, but the work has hitherto only been available in manuscripts and in one nineteenth century edition by Joseph Stevenson. The contemporary audience for Reginald’s account has been said to be small, provincial and local, comprising mostly peasants and women. Subsequently, Godric has been famous for his songs, which have had a separate transmission and are still performed today.

Much past research on Godric of Finchdale has been based on summaries or epitomes of Reginald’s work. It is now clear that several authors rewrote the story to omit many miracles and large potions of text, and that only one manuscript remains testament to the original. This book is the first full, literal translation, presenting Reginald’s work as closely as possible to the single original manuscript, and opening up the work to a wider audience for the first time.

This translation of The Life and Miracles of Saint Godric, Hermit of Finchale uses the one remaining original manuscript to open up Reginald of Durham’s work to a wider audience.

 


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Bastien Michel (14 mars 2022). Reginald de Durham. La vie et les miracles de saint Godric de Finchale. Édité et traduit par Margaret Coombe. Mondes nordiques et normands médiévaux. Consulté le 24 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/riza


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