Back بيرهتفيرث ARZ Byrtferth de Ramsey Danish Byrtferth de Ramsey Spanish Byrhtferth French Byrhtferth ID Bridferto di Ramsey Italian Bridfertus Ramesiensis Latin Byrhtferth av Ramsey NB Birferdo Portuguese Byrhtferth Serbo-Croatian
Byrhtferth (Old English: Byrhtferð; c. 970 – c. 1020) was a priest and monk who lived at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire) in England.[1] He had a deep impact on the intellectual life of later Anglo-Saxon England and wrote many computistic, hagiographic, and historical works.[2][3] He was a leading man of science and best known as the author of many different works (although he may not have written many of them).[4] His Manual (Enchiridion), a scientific textbook, is Byrhtferth's best known work.[5]
He studied with Abbo of Fleury, who was invited to Ramsey Abbey by Oswald of Worcester to help teach. Abbo was there during the period 985 to 987, and became a large influence on Byhrtferth who was interested in the same studies, such as history, logic, astronomy, and mathematics.[6] We do not have contemporary biographies of Byrhtferth, and the only information we have is that given in his Manual and his Preface.[7]
- ^ Henry Bradley (1886). "Byrhtferth". In Dictionary of National Biography. 8. London. pp. 126–27.
- ^ The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Michael Lapidge (1991)
- ^ Medieval England: an encyclopedia; editors: Paul E. Szarmach, M. Teresa Tavormina, Joel T. Rosenthal. New York: Garland Publishing (1998)
- ^ "The Old English Canon of Byrhtferth of Ramsey", Peter S. Baker. Speculum, Vol. 55, No. 1. (1980)
- ^ Byrhtferth of Ramsey. (2011). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/87049/Byrhtferth-of-Ramsey
- ^ Who's Who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England, Richard Fletcher. (2002)
- ^ Forsey, G. (1928). Byrhtferth's Preface. Speculum, 3(4), 505–22.
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