Tatvin ( Eng. Tatwine [Tatwin] ; circa 670, Mercia , July 30, 734 , Canterbury ) - 9th Archbishop of Canterbury (731-734).
| Tatvin English Tatwine | |
| Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| Dedication | 731 |
|---|---|
| Intronization | |
| End of board | 734 |
| Predecessor | Bertwald |
| Successor | Nothelm |
| Died | July 30, 734 Canterbury |
| Buried | Canterbury |
| Holiness | |
| Celebration | July 30th |
Content
Biography
Tatin is a native of Mercia [1] , known mainly from the work of the Venerable Beda “ Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ” (“ Church History of the People of the Angles ”), which contains information about his stay as a monk, and then rector of the monastery in (now in the northwestern part of Leicestershire ), widely known for its piety, wisdom, and brilliant knowledge of the Bible .
On Sunday, June 10, 731, Tatvin was ordained by four bishops in Canterbury . In 733 he received a pallium in Rome , it is also known about his ordination of the bishops of Lindsay and Selsey . He died on July 30, 734 and was buried in Canterbury . Subsequently canonized, the memory is celebrated on July 30 [2] .
Proceedings
Two works by Tatvin have survived to this day: a basic course of Latin grammar and a collection of forty puzzles (metrical enigmata) with a Latin hexameter (each poem numbered from four to twelve lines, the first and last letters of the first line of each puzzle formed two acrostic ). Most experts agree that Tatvin was inspired by similar works by the rector of the Aldhelm [3] . Researchers consider this collection a way of spreading Christian knowledge in Anglo-Saxon society (thanks to the selection of concepts encrypted in the text: “bell”, “altar”, “cross”, etc.); later, a certain supplemented Tatvin’s work with sixty puzzles, since traditionally such collections should have included exactly one hundred verses [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Brooks, Nicholas . The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066. London: Leicester University Press, 1984. P. 80
- ↑ Walsh, Michael J. A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West. London: Burns & Oats, 2007. P. 571
- ↑ Britannica Online
- ↑ Say what I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition . University of Toronto Press Incorporated, 2009. P. 23
Literature
- Misfortune Hon. Church history of the people of the Angles. - SPb. : Aletheia, 2001 .-- 363 p. - ISBN 5-89329-429-7 .
- T. Arnold, ed., Symeonis monachi opera omnia , 2 vols., RS, 75 (1882-5); repr. (1965)
- V. Law, Grammar and grammarians in the early middle ages (1997), pp. 105-106, 109-113
- V. Law, The Latin and Old English glosses in the Ars Tatuini , Anglo-Saxon England, 6 (1977), 77-89
- V. Law, The transmission of the Ars Bonifaciiand the Ars Tatuini , Revue d'Histoire des Textes, 9 (1979), 281–288
- M. Lapidge, Anglo-Latin literature, 600–899 (1996), 370–371
Links
- Michael Lapidge Tatwine // Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- A companion to Old and Middle English literature (edited by LCLambdin and RTLambdin) pp. 339, 340, 346, 347