Geoffrey of Burton: Life and Miracles of St Modwenna (Oxford Medieval Texts)

by RobertBartlett (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2002

  $256.23

  This is the first edition of the life of St Modwenna, an obscure Irish saint whose bones supposedly came to rest in the West Midlands abbey of Burton. Abbot Geoffrey of Burton's account of her life sheds much light on the Latinity, religious attitudes, and historical consciousness of this Benedictine author.