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Aldhelm and Sherborne Essays to Celebrate the Founding of the Bishopric

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Full Title

Aldhelm and Sherborne Essays to Celebrate the Founding of the Bishopric

Author(s)

Nicholas Brooks

Edition
ISBN

9781842178720, 9781842173572, 9781842178706, 9781842178713

Publisher

Oxbow Books

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This collection of papers follows on from a conference, held in Sherborne in June 2005, marking the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the bishopric by Aldhelm of Malmesbury. This volume looks at the work of Aldhelm and the foundation of the see of Sherborne in the wider context of his career and his world. At the Sherborne symposium, Katherine Barker commissioned a performance of Aldhelm’s Carmen rhythmicum by a rune-singer and an instrumentalist. The large audience at Sherborne were transfixed by the experience of listening, with the text and a translation before them, to a musical recitation and performance of this long Latin poem, which – perhaps for the first time in a thousand years – conveyed something of its emotional power. The rhythms and message of Aldhelm’s poem came alive in a remarkable way and readers of this volume can gain much of the same experience by listening to the accompanying CD, with the text and translation of the Carmen rhythmicum before them.