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The main text of this 11th-century manuscript from the monastery of St Wandrille in Normandy is John Cassian’s Collation...

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St Maurus (d. 584) is one of the most famous disciples of St Benedict of Nursia (d. c. 550), the author of the Benedicti...

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Texts devoted to the lives and miracles of different saints were collected and widely read during the medieval period. C...

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Priscian was a Latin grammarian and scholar, active in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) at the beginning of the six...

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St Augustine was born in Tagaste, now Souk-Ahras in Algeria, in 354. As a young man he was attracted to the ideas of Man...

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St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) composed De civitate Dei (The City of God) in response to an attack on Rome by the Visigot...

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During the 11th and the 12th centuries, a new kind of text appeared for use in the liturgy – the Missal, which combined ...

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The lives of two important early saints, Sts Martin and Benedict, have been copied together in this volume dating from t...

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From the early Middle Ages onwards many monasteries produced libelli (small books), each of which contained the life of...

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The writings of classical and late Antique authors such as Cicero (d. 44 BC), Ovid (d. c. 18) and Prudentius (d. after 4...

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Saints’ Lives or Vitae sanctorum were a new and popular form of historical writing developed in Europe in the Middle Age...

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