New, accessible editions, with translation and commentary, of the two most important primary sources for the life of St Dunstan, one of the principal figures of the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon church.

• 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

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.