Herman the Archdeacon and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: Miracles of St Edmund

by Lynda Lockyer and Tom Licence

St Edmund was medieval England's patron saint, and at his abbey, two major Latin miracle collections were compiled: one in the 1090s by Herman the Archdeacon, an historian trained in the schools of Lorraine; the other c. 1100 by an anonymous hagiographer who rewrote and expanded Herman's work.

Herman's Miracles, an important text for the history of the realm and East Anglia in particular, is edited and translated here in its full fifty chapters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199689199
• ISBN13: 9780199689194
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.7" x 8.5"