ABSTRACT

For the Virgin Mary, Mary Clayton's work provides much new evidence to be assimilated, and she has also worked with Hugh Magennis on the St Margaret legends. Her existence is owed to a corrector of Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley which is a Rochester manuscript made up, for the most part, of lfric homilies. King Edwin's marriage to Ethelburga, have less instantly retrievable, for which it is embedded within Bede's narrative of the conversion of Northumbria. Paulinus ended his life in Rochester and was buried there. With the Chad homily they looked again to Bede as source. This time they had a Mercian saint, whose history Bede obtained from the monks of Lastingham. The intention of the first sixteen items of the manuscript have provided for major saints' days, the last being lfric's useful non-specific sermon for a confessor. The Chad homily is a moderately sized life.