Byrhtferth of Ramsey

Byrhtferth of Ramsey was one of the most learned scholars of late Anglo-Saxon England, and his two saints'' Lives-of Oswald, a powerful bishop of Worcester and York in the tenth century (d. 992), and Ecgwine, the seventh-century founder of Evesham-are among the most important historical sources for our understanding of late Anglo-Saxon England. The Life of St Oswald is the longest surviving work...