Vita Sancti Cuthberti

Life of Saint Cuthbert

AuthorBede

LanguageMedieval Latin

Yearc. 705-716

CountryEngland

GenreBiography / Memoir / Reportage

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The Vita Sancti Cuthberti is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria. It is probably the earliest extant saint's life from Anglo-Saxon England and is an account of the life and miracles of Cuthbert, a Bernician hermit-monk who became bishop of Lindisfarne. Surviving in eight manuscripts from Continental Europe, it was not as well read in the Middle Ages as the prose version by Bede. It was however Bede's main source for his two dedicated works on Cuthbert, the "Metrical Life" and the "Prose Life".— Wikipedia