Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (771 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521093074 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Real Look at Aelfric R. Farr The author has us look at what are the resources AElfric uses, why he picks them, what he uses in them and does not use, who are his readers, what is his message to them, how does he put this across, and why does he use English. She ends with pointing out the uniqueness of his using English for narrative and saintly lives (hagiography). This wa
. Mechthild Gretsch is Professor in the Department of English at Gottingen University. Her previous books include The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (also in the Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England series, 1999), and she has published articles in various English and German journals, including Anglo-Saxon England
The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' lives in the vernacular. He adapts the cults and rewrites the received Latin hagiography so that each of their lives conveys a distinct message to the contemporary political elite as well as to a lay audience at large.. This study analyzes the most important author Aelfric's lives of five important saints in the light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England, providing the reader fascinating glimpses of 'Aelfric at work'
Gretsch's facility in contemporary English is superb." -Milton McC. Its greatest achievements are the unfolding, through patient analysis of sources that were or could have been available to Aelfric, of the varying strategies employed by Aelfric to commemorate his subjects andthe reinforcement of our appreciation of the importance of Aelfric of upholding the principles of the monastic reform of Aethelwold and of pastoral response to current events. Gatch, Union Theological Seminary, Journal of Medieval Studies . "This is a masterly review of these five selected vitae by a scholar who has immersed herself deeply in the literature of the tenth-century Winchester reform movement