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Aldhelm of Sherborne

c. 639 – 709 · b. Wessex · Bishop of Sherborne
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First bishop of Sherborne and abbot of Malmesbury. Influential Anglo-Latin author of De Virginitate and treatises on metrics. Important figure in early English ecclesiastical culture.

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Sources for biography

  • Aldhelm, De Virginitate primary
  • Bede, Hist. Eccl. 5.18 primary

documented connections(1)

  • knew of (incoming) Boniface
    Boniface, formed in the West Saxon school, knew and used Aldhelm's writings and praised him.
    Boniface, Epistolae 33

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