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Vita Sancti Wilfrithi
The ''Vita Sancti Wilfrithi'' or ''Life of St Wilfrid'' (spelled "Wilfrid" in the modern era〔Fraser, ''Pictland'', p. 47〕) is an early 8th-century hagiographic text recounting the life of the Northumbrian bishop, Wilfrid. Although a hagiography, it has few miracles, while its main concerns are with the politics of the Northumbrian church and the history of the monasteries of Ripon and Hexham. It is one of a collection of historical sources from the late 7th- and early 8th-centuries, along with the anonymous ''Vita Sancti Cuthberti'', the works of Bede and Adomnán's ''Vita Sancti Columbae'', that detail the Christianisation of Great Britain and make the period the best documented period in English history before the age of Alfred the Great.
==Date and authorship==
In the preface to the ''Vita Wilfrithi'', the author reveals that he is a priest called Stephen.〔Webb and Farmer (eds.), ''Age of Bede'', p. 107〕 Writers in modern times often style the author "Eddius Stephanus",〔The popular Penguin translation, Webb and Farmer (eds.), ''Age of Bede'', pp. 104–84, styles the author such〕 an attribution that goes back to the 17th century.〔Kirby, "Bede, Eddius Stephanus", p. 102〕 This attribution is now thought unlikely by many historians.〔See Goffart, ''Narrators'', p. 281, n. 210〕 The identification was made because the ''Vita Wilfrithi'' recounts that sometime between 666 and 669, Wilfrid brought two singing masters from Kent to Ripon, Ædde and Æona.〔''VSW'', 14, in Webb and Farmer (eds.), ''Age of Bede'', p. 122〕
This Ædde was also mentioned by Bede, who says that an ''Æddi cognomento Stephanus'' ("Ædde, also known as Stephen") was brought to Northumbria by Wilfrid and was the first singing-master (''cantor'') among the Northumbrians.〔Bede, ''HE'', iv.2; Colgrave, McClure and Collins (eds.), ''Bede'', p. 172〕 This is not however thought to be good evidence by many modern historians,〔McClure and Collins (eds.), ''Bede'', p. 400, n. 173〕 while many other factors, such as age, make the attribution positively unlikely.〔Kirby, "Bede, Eddius Stephanus", pp. 102–3〕
The ''Vita Wilfrithi'' can be dated reasonably securely between 709, the year of Wilfrid's death, and c. 720.〔Goffart, ''Narrators'', pp. 282–3; Gransden, ''Historical Writing'', p. 71〕 The latter date, c. 720, is the approximate date of the ''Vita Sancti Cuthberti'', a text which the ''Vita Wilfrithi'' quotes,〔Goffart, ''Narrators'', p. 283〕 and indeed imitates so often that one historian has used the word "plagiarism".〔Goffart, ''Narrators'', p. 284〕 There are some indications that it was written after 716.〔Fraser, ''Pictland'', p. 265〕
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