An Entity of Type: book, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Vitae duorum Offarum "The lives of the two Offas" is a literary history written in the mid-thirteenth century, apparently by the St Albans monk Matthew Paris; however, the most recent editor and translator of the work rejects this attribution and argues for an earlier date, in the late twelfth century. The earliest editor, William Wats, argues that the texts are older than Matthew's day but were revised by him; he bases this view on stylistic elements, such as the inclusion in the first Vita of a quotation from Lucan (Pharsalia I. 92–3) which also appears repeatedly in Matthew's Chronica maiora.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Vitae duorum Offarum est un récit littéraire écrit au XIIIe siècle par le moine copiste Matthieu Paris travaillant dans la cathédrale Saint-Alban de Saint Albans dévouée à Saint-Alban. Le Vitae duorum Offarum est une biographie de deux rois de Mercie portant le même nom d'Offa, Offa d'Angeln et Offa de Mercie. Selon certains éditeurs, le Vitae duorum Offarum serait antérieur au XIIIe siècle et Matthieu Paris ne serait qu'un simple copiste. Matthieun Paris s'intéressa à ces deux rois qui vouaient eux-mêmes un culte à Saint-Alban. Offa d'Angel fit le vœu de fonder un monastère dédié à Saint-Alban, tandis que plusieurs siècles plus tard, son homonyme de Offa de Mercie exécuta ce projet après la découverte des reliques du martyre Saint-Alban et fit édifier l'abbaye de Saint-Alban. Disposant peu de sources fiables, Matthieu Paris broda un récit en partie fictif et merveilleux. Il commis des erreurs telle que celle de transposer le célèbre combat d'Offa d'Angeln qui se déroula le long de la rivière Eider situé dans la Saxe primitive et qu'il situa en Angleterre. (fr)
  • The Vitae duorum Offarum "The lives of the two Offas" is a literary history written in the mid-thirteenth century, apparently by the St Albans monk Matthew Paris; however, the most recent editor and translator of the work rejects this attribution and argues for an earlier date, in the late twelfth century. The earliest editor, William Wats, argues that the texts are older than Matthew's day but were revised by him; he bases this view on stylistic elements, such as the inclusion in the first Vita of a quotation from Lucan (Pharsalia I. 92–3) which also appears repeatedly in Matthew's Chronica maiora. (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 20594478 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 10236 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1094267906 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Vitae duorum Offarum "The lives of the two Offas" is a literary history written in the mid-thirteenth century, apparently by the St Albans monk Matthew Paris; however, the most recent editor and translator of the work rejects this attribution and argues for an earlier date, in the late twelfth century. The earliest editor, William Wats, argues that the texts are older than Matthew's day but were revised by him; he bases this view on stylistic elements, such as the inclusion in the first Vita of a quotation from Lucan (Pharsalia I. 92–3) which also appears repeatedly in Matthew's Chronica maiora. (en)
  • Vitae duorum Offarum est un récit littéraire écrit au XIIIe siècle par le moine copiste Matthieu Paris travaillant dans la cathédrale Saint-Alban de Saint Albans dévouée à Saint-Alban. Le Vitae duorum Offarum est une biographie de deux rois de Mercie portant le même nom d'Offa, Offa d'Angeln et Offa de Mercie. Selon certains éditeurs, le Vitae duorum Offarum serait antérieur au XIIIe siècle et Matthieu Paris ne serait qu'un simple copiste. Matthieun Paris s'intéressa à ces deux rois qui vouaient eux-mêmes un culte à Saint-Alban. (fr)
rdfs:label
  • Vitae duorum Offarum (fr)
  • Vitae duorum Offarum (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License