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    Aldhelm (Old English: Ealdhelm, Latin: Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis) (c. 639 – 25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer...
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    St Aldhelm's Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the village of Belchalwell, Dorset. It is in the ecclesiastical parish of Belchalwell, which...
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    Church of St Aldhelm in Doulting, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century. It is a Grade I listed building. The dedication to St Aldhelm is unusual...
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    red field. A white cross on a field of red, known as the Flag of Saint Aldhelm (whose feast day on 25 May is also celebrated as "Wessex Day") is sometimes...
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    St Aldhelm's Chapel is a Norman chapel on St Aldhelm's Head in the parish of Worth Matravers, Swanage, Dorset. It stands close to the cliffs, 108 metres...
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  • St. Aldhelm's Church or St Aldhelm's Church or any variation thereof may refer to: St Aldhelm's Church, Poole, Dorset St Aldhelm's Church, Radipole, Dorset...
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  • is the only event recorded in his reign. The Carmina Ecclesiastica of Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (died 709), written a generation after Centwine's...
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    St Aldhelm's Well in Doulting, Somerset, England, is an ancient spring which is the source of the River Sheppey. The site is a Grade II listed building...
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    regulation of poetic feet') is a Latin treatise by the West-Saxon scholar Aldhelm (d. 709). It is dedicated to one Acircius, understood to be King Aldfrith...
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  • St Aldhelm's Academy is a co-educational secondary school serving the Rossmore, Parkstone, Newtown, Wallisdown and Alderney areas of Poole, Dorset, England...
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    St Aldhelm's Church is a Grade II* listed Gothic Revival Anglican church in the Branksome area of Poole, Dorset, England. It is dedicated to Saint Aldhelm...
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    burh, meaning Maildubh's fortification. After his death around 700, St Aldhelm became the first abbot and built the first church organ in England, which...
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  • School (1743–1992), Foster's Grammar School for Boys (1640–1992) and St Aldhelm's Secondary Modern School (1959–1992). This merger is not forgotten, and...
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    The pre-eminent composer of Latin riddles in early medieval England was Aldhelm (d. 709), while the Old English verse riddles found in the tenth-century...
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  • marvellous creatures, which may be connected with the Anglo-Saxon scholar Aldhelm. It is transmitted in several manuscripts from the ninth and tenth centuries...
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  • Ingilmundr secretly plans to have Uhtred killed, but Aldhelm warns Uhtred who flees back to Bebbanburg. Aldhelm is subsequently labelled a traitor by Aethelstan...
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  • Len Deighton and in series 2 to 5 of The Last Kingdom as the character Aldhelm, a Mercian lord and advisor to the monarchy. He also appeared in The Imitation...
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  • Continuum, 2005). "Professor Robert Eaglestone". Eaglestone, Robert Alexander Aldhelm (1995). Emmanuel Lévinas and the ethics of criticism. discover.library...
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    5788°N 2.0565°W / 50.5788; -2.0565 St Alban's Head (corruption of St Aldhelms Head) is a headland located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southwest of Swanage...
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    was founded as a Benedictine monastery around 676 by the scholar-poet Aldhelm, a nephew of King Ine of Wessex. The town of Malmesbury grew up around...
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    mention Aldhelm in this connection; but we know from a letter addressed by Aldhelm to Hadrian that he too must be numbered among their students. Aldhelm wrote...
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    St Aldhelm's Roman Catholic Church in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England is a Roman Catholic Church built in 1875. The church is dedicated to St Aldhelm who...
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    the sea." The most southerly point is St Alban's Head (archaically St. Aldhelm's Head). From 1974 to 2019, the whole of the Isle of Purbeck lay within...
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  • The Epistola ad Geruntium ("Epistle to Gerunt") is a letter written by Aldhelm, abbot of Malmesbury to Geraint, King of Dumnonia, about the late 7th -...
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  • Rhythmicum ("Rhythmic Poem") is a 7th-8th century poem written in Latin by Aldhelm. It is the earliest example of the verse form continuous octosyllables...
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    The Church of St Aldhelm and St Eadburgha in Broadway, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century, and has been designated by English Heritage as a...
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  • manuscript traditions, with authors such as Cædmon, Bede, Cynewulf and Aldhelm. Late Old English (c. 900 to 1150), the final stage of the language leading...
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    first referred to as "bannuc" in early glosses to the 8th century author Aldhelm (d. 709), and its first cited definition in 1562. Its historic use was...
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  • Farkas portrays a young Aethelflaed (guest series 1) James Northcote as Aldhelm (series 2–5; Seven Kings Must Die), Aethelred and Aethelflaed's closest...
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    St Aldhelm's Church is a former Church of England church in Boveridge, Dorset, England. It was built at the expense of Richard Brouncker in 1838 and became...
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