See also:

• ALDHELM (c. 640-709)

ALDHELM (c. 640-709)  , See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of See also:

• SHERBORNE

Sherborne, See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born before the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 7th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . He is said to have been the son of Kenten, who was of the royal See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of Wessex, but who was certainly not, as See also:

• ALDHELM (c. 640-709)

Aldhelm's See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early biographer Faritius asserts, the See also:

• BROTHER

brother of See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King Me . He received his first See also:

• EDUCATION

education in the school of an Irish scholar and See also:

• MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
• MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
• MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
• MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)

monk, Maildulf, Mnldubh or Meldun (d. c . 675), who.had settled. in the See also:

• BRITISH

British stronghold of Bladon or Bladow on the site of the See also:

• TOWN

town called Mailduberi, Maldubesburg, Meldunesburg, ' &c., and finally See also:

• MALMESBURY
• MALMESBURY, JAMES HARRIS, IST EARL OF (1746-1820)
• MALMESBURY, JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, 3RD EARL OF (1807-1889)

Malmesbury,' after him . In 668 See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope Vitalian sent See also:

• THEODORE
• THEODORE (602-690)
• THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
• THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

Theodore of See also:

• TARSUS (mod. Tersous)

Tarsus to be See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury, and about the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time came the See also:

• AFRICAN

African scholar See also:

• HADRIAN (PUBLICS AELIUS HADRIANUS)

Hadrian, who became See also:

• ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
• ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
• ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
• ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
• ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)

abbot of St See also:

• AUGUSTINE, SAINT (354-430)
• AUGUSTINE, SAINT (d. c.613)

Augustine's at Canterbury . Aldhelm was one of his disciples, for he addresses him as the " See also:

• VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)

venerable See also:

• PRECEPTOR

preceptor of my See also:

• RUDE, FRANCOIS (1784–1855)

rude childhood." He must, nevertheless, have been See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age when he bega,n to study with Hadrian . His studies included See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, See also:

• ASTROLOGY

astrology, the See also:

• ART

art of reckoning and the difficulties of the See also:

• CALENDAR

calendar . He learned, according to the doubtful statements of the early lives, both See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew . He certainly introduces many Latinized Greek words into his See also:

• WORKS

works . See also:

• ILL

Ill-See also:

• HEALTH

health compelled him to leave Canterbury, and he returned to Malmesbury, where he was a monk under Maildulf for fourteen years, dating probably from 661, and including the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of his studies with Hadrian . When Maildulf died, Aldhelmwas appointed in 675, according to a See also:

• CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter of doubtful authenticity cited by See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William of Malmesbury, by Leutherius, bishop of See also:

• DORCHESTER
• DORCHESTER, DUDLEY CARLETON, VISCOUNT (1573-1632)
• DORCHESTER, GUY CARLETON

Dorchester from 671 to 676, to succeed to the direction of the monastery, of which he became the first abbot . He introduced the See also:

• BENEDICTINE

Benedictine See also:

• RULE

rule, and secured the right of the See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election of the abbot to the monks themselves .

The community at Malmesbury increased, and Aldhelm was able to found two other monasteries to be centres of learning at See also:

• FROME

Frome and at See also:

• BRADFORD
• BRADFORD, JOHN (1510?—1555)
• BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1590—1657)
• BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1663—1752)
• BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1827—1892)

Bradford on See also:

• AVON

Avon . The little See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of St See also:

• LAWRENCE
• LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
• LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
• LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
• LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
• LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
• LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
• LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
• LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)

Lawrence at Bradford See also:

• DATES

dates back to his time and may safely be regarded as his . At Malmesbury he built a new church to replace Maildulf's modest See also:

• BUILDING

building, and obtained considerable grants of See also:

• LAND

land for the monastery . His fame as a scholar rapidly spread into other countries . Artwil, the son of an Irish king, submitted his writings for Aldhelm's approval, and Cellanus, an Irish monk from Feronne, was lone of his correspondents . Aldhelm was 'the first Englishman, so far as we know, to write in Latin See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, and his See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to Acircius (Aldfrith or Eadfrith, king of See also:

• NORTHUMBRIA (regnum Northanhymbrorum)

Northumbria) is a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on Latin See also:

• PROSODY (Gr. rpovwSta)

prosody for the use of his countrymen . In this See also:

• WORK

work he included his most famous productions, 101 See also:

• RIDDLES (A.S. raedan, to interpret)

riddles in Latin hexameters . Each of them is a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete picture, and one of them runs to 83 lines . That his merits as a scholar were early recognized in his own See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is shown by the encomium of See also:

• BEDE, BEDA, or B
• BEDE, CUTHBERT

Bede (Eccl . Hist. v . 18), who speaks of him as a wonder of erudition . His fame reached See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, and at the See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request of Pope See also:

• SERGIUS, ST

Sergius I .

(687-701) he paid a visit to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, of which, however, there is no See also:

• NOTICE

notice in his extant writings . On his return, bringing with him privileges for his monastery and a magnificent See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar, he received a popular See also:

• OVATION (Lat. ovatio)

ovation . He was deputed by a See also:

• SYNOD
• SYNOD (Gr. vbvobos)

synod of the church in Wessex to remonstrate with the Britons of Domnonia (See also:

• DEVON, EARLS OF

Devon and See also:

• CORNWALL

Cornwall) on their See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences from the Roman practice in the shape of the See also:

• TONSURE (Lat. tonsura, from tondere, to shave)

tonsure and the date of See also:

• EASTER

Easter . This he did in a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and rather acrimonious letter to their king Geraint (Geruntius), and their ultimate agreement with Rome is referred by William of Malmesbury to his efforts . In 705, or perhaps earlier, Haddi, bishop of See also:

• WINCHESTER
• WINCHESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Winchester, died, and the See also:

• DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese was divided into two parts . Sherborne was the new see, of which Aldhelm reluctantly became the first bishop . He wished to resign the See also:

• ABBEY (Lat. abbatia; from Syr. abba, father)
• ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852– )

abbey of Malmesbury which he had governed for thirty years, but yielding to the remonstrances of the monks he continued to See also:

• DIRECT

direct it until his See also:

• DEATH

death . He was now an old See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, but he showed See also:

• GREAT

great activity in his new functions . The See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral church which he built at Sherborne, though replaced later by a ' For the disputed See also:

• ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology of Malmesbury, which some connect with Aldhelm's name, see Bishop See also:

• BROWNE
• BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
• BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
• BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
• BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
• BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
• BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
• BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
• BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
• BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
• BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)

Browne, St Aldhelm: his See also:

• LIFE

Life and Times, p . 73 . See also:

• NORMAN
• NORMAN, SIR HENRY WYLIE (1826-1904)

Norman church, is described by William of Malmesbury . He was on his rounds in his diocese when he died in the church of Doulting on the 25th of- May 709 .

The See also:

• BODY

body was taken to Malmesbury, and crosses were set up by the pious care of his friend, Bishop Ecgwine of See also:

• WORCESTER
• WORCESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• WORCESTER, JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF (1427—1470)
• WORCESTER, WILLIAM (c. 1415-c. 1482)

Worcester, at the various halting-places . He was buried in the church of St See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

Michael . His biographers relate- miracles due to his sanctity worked during his lifetime and at his See also:

• SHRINE (Lat. scrinium, a case or chest for books, hence a casket; from scribere, to write, Fr. ecrin, Ital. scrigno)

shrine . Aldhelm wrote See also:

• POETRY

poetry in Anglo-Saxon also, and set his own compositions to See also:

• MUSIC

music, but none of his songs, which were still popular in the time of See also:

• ALFRED

Alfred, have come down to us . Finding his See also:

• PEOPLE

people slow to come to church, he is said to have stood at the end of a See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge singing songs in the See also:

• VERNACULAR (Lat. verna, dim. vernaculus, a slave horn in his master's house)

vernacular, thus See also:

• COLLECTING

collecting a See also:

• CROWD, CROUTH, CROWTH

crowd to listen to exhortations on sacred subjects . Aldhelm wrote in elaborate and grandiloquent Latin, which soon came to be regarded as barbarous . Much admired as he was by his contemporaries, his fame as a scholar therefore soon declined, but his reputation as a See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer in Latin scholarship in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and as a teacher remains . Aldhelm's works were collected in J . A . See also:

• GILES (GIL, GILLES), ST

Giles's Patres eccl . Angl . (See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, 1844), and reprinted by J .

P . See also:

• MIGNE, JACQUES PAUL (1800-1875)

Migne in his Patrologiae Cursus, vol . 89 (285o) . The letter to Geraint, king of Domnonia, was supposed to have been destroyed by the Britons (W. of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum, p . 361), but was discovered with others of Aldhelm's in the See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence of St See also:

• BONIFACE (Bonifacius)
• BONIFACE, SAINT (680-754)

Boniface, See also:

• ARCH
• ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

arch-bishop of See also:

• MAINZ (Fr. Mayence)

Mainz . A long letter to Eahf rid, a scholar just returned from See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland (first printed in Usserii Veterum Epistt . Hiber . Sylloge, 1632), is of See also:

• INTEREST

interest as casting See also:

• LIGHT

light on the relations between English and Irish scholars . Next to the riddles, Aldhelm's best-known work is De Laude Virginitatis sive de Virginitate Sanctorum, a Latin treatise addressed about 705 to the nuns of See also:

• BARKING

Barking,2 in which he commemorates a great number of See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints . This was afterwards turned by Aldhelm into Latin verse (printed by Delrio, Mainz, 16o1) . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief source of his Epistola ad Acircium sive See also:

• LIBER

liber de septenario, et de metris, aenigmatibus ac pedum regulis (ed . A .

See also:

• MAI, ANGELO (1782—1854)

Mai, Class . Auct. vol. v.) is, See also:

• PRISCIAN [PRISCIANUS CAESARIENSIS]

Priscian . For the riddles included in it, his See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model was the collection known as Symposii aenigmata . The See also:

• ACROSTIC (Gr. aKpos, at the end, and arixos, line or verse)

acrostic introduction gives the See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence, " Aldhelmus cecinit millenis versibus odas," whether read from the initial or final letters of the lines . His Latin poems include one on the See also:

• DEDICATION (Lat. dedicatio, from dedicare, to proclaim, to announce)

dedication of a See also:

• BASILICA

basilica built by See also:

• BUGGE, SOPHUS (1833—1907)

Bugge (or Eadburga), a royal See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady of the house of Wessex . An excellent See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his ecclesiastical importance is given by W . See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

Bright in Chapters on Early English Church See also:

• HISTORY

History (Oxford, 1878) . For his position as a writer of Latin verse consult A . See also:

• EBERT, FRIEDRICH ADOLF (1791-1834)

Ebert, Allgemeine Geschichte d . Literatur See also:

• DES

des Mittelalters See also:

• IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im Abendlande, 2 Cuthburga, See also:

• SISTER

sister of King See also:

• INE

Ine of Wessex, and therefore related to Aldhelm, See also:

• LEFT

left her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband Aldfrith, king of Northumbria, to enter the nunnery at Barking . She afterwards founded the nunnery of See also:

• WIMBORNE (WIMBORNE MINSTER)

Wimborne, of which she became See also:

• ABBESS (Lat. abbatissa, fem. form of abbas, abbot)

abbess . vol. i. new edition (1889); M .

Manitius, Geschichte der christlichlateinischen Poesie &c . (See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart, 1891), pp . 487-496; also H . See also:

• HAHN, AUGUST (1792–1863)

Hahn, Bonifaz and Lul ihre angelsachsischen Korrespondenten, See also:

• CHAP

chap. i . (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1883) . The two last-named works contain many further See also:

• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

bibliographical references .