The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform

This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in late-tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by AEthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, of his influential school. The early stages of AEthelwold's scholarly career are explored and new light is shed on the role which King AEthelstan's cosmopolitan court played. Two widely influential Old English texts are definitively attributed to AEthelwold and his circle, which attest to the importance that the reformers attached to the vernacular.