Æbbe was a saint venerated in medieval Oxfordshire. St Ebbe's church in the southern English city of Oxford had been verifiably dedicated to the saint by 1091.[1] It is believed that she represents a rare southern expression of the cult of the Northumbrian abbess and saint, Æbbe of Coldingham, to whom the church at Shelswell, also in Oxfordshire, was dedicated.[2][3]
It has also been argued by several historians that Æbbe of Oxford is the same Æbbe as the conjectured abbess-saint who gave her name to nearby Abingdon ("hill of Æbbe").[4]
Notes
edit- ^ Bartlett, Miracles, pp. xiv–xv
- ^ Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, vol. 4, 1979, pp. 369–412
- ^ Bartlett, Miracles, p. xv, n. 15
- ^ Blair, "Handlist", pp. 502–03
References
edit- Bartlett, Robert, ed. (2003). The miracles of Saint Æbbe of Coldingham and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Oxford medieval texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/actrade/9780199259229.book.1. ISBN 978-0-19-925922-9. OCLC 54387767.
- Blair, John (2002). "A handlist of Anglo-Saxon saints". In Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard (eds.). Local saints and local churches in the early medieval West. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 495–565. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198203940.003.0014. ISBN 978-0-19-820394-0.
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