His decision to dedicate three of his Lives to prominent Norman bishops suggests he was motivated by both personal and political concerns. Goscelin’s purposes in undertaking hagiographical commissions were complex. 5 Judging from his hagiographical commissions, Goscelin appears to have spent time at Peterborough, Barking, Ely, and Ramsey before being recruited to Canterbury to commemorate the grand translation of the abbey’s entire relic collection in 1091, a colossal project which occupied him for the rest of the decade. This peripatetic period, however, proved his most productive, and a great many of the works attributed to him, some thirty in total, were written during these years. 4 Nursing feelings of exile, Goscelin appears to have led an itinerant existence before settling at St Augustine’s in the early 1090s. Goscelin appears to have quarrelled with Herman’s successor, Osmund, who, by ‘serpent envy and a step-father’s barbarity … compelled to wander a long way away’. Certainly his service in the bishop’s household would explain his sudden departure from the locality following Herman’s death in 1078. While in the south-west, he may have served as chaplain to the nuns at Wilton and it is possible that he may also have served Bishop Herman as a secretary-cum-companion. His move may well have been at the encouragement of Bishop Herman of Ramsbury and Sherborne, since Goscelin appears to have joined the Benedictine community at Sherborne. 3 He was a Flemish émigré who left the monastery at Saint-Bertin and moved to England while still a young man in the early 1060s. 2 Very little is known about Goscelin’s life and what is known has been pieced together from tantalizing snippets found in his hagiographical works. 1 Goscelin was the most celebrated hagiographer of his generation, whose prolificacy in writing the ‘lives of countless saints’ would later render him, in William of Malmesbury’s estimation, as ‘second to none since Bede’. Send us feedback about these examples.The Vita Deo dilectae uirginis Mildrethae ( BHL 5960) was written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin during his residency at St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, in the final decade of the eleventh century. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'superhuman.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Bheem and Raju exhibit superhuman abilities in the realms of fighting, taming tigers, and conducting spontaneous dance-offs. Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023 Her fortitude, both physical and mental, is superhuman, a 90-pound septuagenarian devoting her retirement years to caregiving for my father, who has Parkinson’s. 2023 When the paddle was shifted just a few pixels higher on the screen-a change that might not even be noticed by a human player-the system's previously superhuman performance immediately took a nose dive. 2023 Every normal person has some superhuman hero stuff. Hasan Kubba, Fortune, 1 July 2022 This used to be a superhuman task, but not anymore. 2023 He is admired for his seemingly superhuman work ethic, his ability to somehow claw back success from the brink of failure and bankruptcy, to disrupt and change entire trillion-dollar industries, and his uncanny ability to not only predict the future, but to make it. 2023 But Google’s superhuman AI arrived in 2016. ![]() Recent Examples on the Web Fascism showed it well: Italians read in the news that Mussolini was capable of all sorts of superhuman feats, such as swimming faster than boats, or harvesting entire fields alone in a matter of hours.
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