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Old English Lives Of Saints
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Author : Aelfric
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Old English Lives Of Saints written by Aelfric and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Christian literature, English (Old) categories.
Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of saints--including virgin martyrs, kings, soldiers, and bishops--whose examples modeled courageous faith, self-sacrifice, and individual and collective resistance at a turbulent time when England was under severe Viking attack.
Old English Lives Of Saints Saint Oswald
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Author : Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Old English Lives Of Saints Saint Oswald written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Christian saints categories.
"These volumes contain a series of texts written by the Anglo-Saxon monastic author Ælfric between ca. 994 and 998 CE and assembled by him into a book now commonly referred to as his Lives of Saints (LS). Ælfric describes it in the Old English preface as a 'book about the passions and lives of those saints whom those who live in monasteries honor among themselves in their offices.' He intended it to complement his two earlier series, now known as Catholic Homilies I and II (CH I and CH II), which had provided two collections for use in preaching to the laity and clergy throughout England. In composing this third collection and dedicating it to a powerful and very religious lay patron, Æthelweard, Ælfric was providing a series of texts that Æthelweard and other devout people, lay and religious, could use as spiritual reading or could listen to being read aloud."--
Anonymous Old English Lives Of Saints
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Author : Johanna Kramer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Anonymous Old English Lives Of Saints written by Johanna Kramer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Christian hagiography categories.
Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated saints like the abbess Seaxburh, as well as familiar ones like Nicholas and Michael the Archangel. This volume presents new Old English editions and modern English translations of twenty-two unattributed saints' Lives.
Old English Lives Of Saints Shrove Sunday
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Author : Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Old English Lives Of Saints Shrove Sunday written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Christian saints categories.
"These volumes contain a series of texts written by the Anglo-Saxon monastic author Ælfric between ca. 994 and 998 CE and assembled by him into a book now commonly referred to as his Lives of Saints (LS). Ælfric describes it in the Old English preface as a 'book about the passions and lives of those saints whom those who live in monasteries honor among themselves in their offices.' He intended it to complement his two earlier series, now known as Catholic Homilies I and II (CH I and CH II), which had provided two collections for use in preaching to the laity and clergy throughout England. In composing this third collection and dedicating it to a powerful and very religious lay patron, Æthelweard, Ælfric was providing a series of texts that Æthelweard and other devout people, lay and religious, could use as spiritual reading or could listen to being read aloud."--
Old English Lives Of Saints Nativity Of Christ
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Author : Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Old English Lives Of Saints Nativity Of Christ written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Christian literature, English (Old) categories.
These volumes contain a series of texts written by the Anglo-Saxon monastic author Ælfric between ca. 994 and 998 CE and assembled by him into a book now commonly referred to as his Lives of Saints (LS). Ælfric describes it in the Old English preface as a "book about the passions and lives of those saints whom those who live in monasteries honor among themselves in their offices." He intended it to complement his two earlier series, now known as Catholic Homilies I and II (CH I and CH II), which had provided two collections for use in preaching to the laity and clergy throughout England. In composing this third collection and dedicating it to a powerful and very religious lay patron, Æthelweard, Ælfric was providing a series of texts that Æthelweard and other devout people, lay and religious, could use as spiritual reading or could listen to being read aloud.--
Women Saints Lives In Old English Prose
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Author : Leslie A. Donovan
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1999
Women Saints Lives In Old English Prose written by Leslie A. Donovan and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Translations of eight saints' lives, giving an insight into women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Devout, virtuous and independent, the heroines of Old English saints' lives (one of the most popular literary genres of the middle ages) provided exemplars of personal and public inspiration for medieval Christians. The eight lives translated here are the earliest known vernacular accounts of the biographies of Æthelthryth, Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Eugenia, Euphrosyne, Lucy, and Mary of Egypt. They depict women escaping unwanted marriages, communicating with male relatives, acquiring an education, living autonomously as hermits, and achieving positions of leadership; such lives document not only the importance of spiritual faith to early Christian women, but also testify to how these women (and their audience) employed faith as a tool for empowerment. Each life is preceded by a brief description of the saint's cult from its early Christian origins to its presence in Anglo-Saxon culture. The translationis accompanied by an introduction establishing the general background for the genre, the conventions of women saints' lives, and women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England; and an interpretive essay exploring the relationships between explicit presentations of the female body and the strength of spiritual authority as exhibited in these texts completes the volume. LESLIE A. DONOVAN is Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico.
The Old English Lives Of St Margaret
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Author : Mary Clayton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-09-15
The Old English Lives Of St Margaret written by Mary Clayton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
An edition of two Old English versions of the colourful legend of St Margaret of Antioch.
Holy Men And Holy Women
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Author : Paul E. Szarmach
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1996-10-03
Holy Men And Holy Women written by Paul E. Szarmach and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.
The Old English Lives Of St Martin Of Tours
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Author : Andre Mertens
language : en
Publisher: Göttingen University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Old English Lives Of St Martin Of Tours written by Andre Mertens and has been published by Göttingen University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Christian saints categories.
St Martin of Tours is one of Christianity’s major saints and his significance reaches far beyond the powerful radiance of his iconic act of charity. While the saint and his cult have been researched comprehensively in Germany and France, his cult in the British Isles proves to be fairly unexplored. Andre Mertens closes this gap for Anglo-Saxon England by editing all the age’s surviving texts on the saint, including a commentary and translations. Moreover, Mertens looks beyond the horizon of the surviving body of literary relics and dedicates an introductory study to an analysis of the saint’s cult in Anglo-Saxon England and his significance for Anglo-Saxon culture.
The Displacement Of The Body In Lfric S Virgin Martyr Lives
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Author : Alison Gulley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-16
The Displacement Of The Body In Lfric S Virgin Martyr Lives written by Alison Gulley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations, from Latin source material, by the abbot and grammarian Ælfric. The vitae of Agnes, Agatha, Lucy, and Eugenia, and the married saints Daria, Basilissa, and Cecilia, included in Ælfric's s Old English Lives of Saints, recount the lives, persecution, and martyrdom of young women who renounce sex and, in the first four stories, marriage, to devote their lives to Christian service. They purport to be about the primacy of virginity and the role of the body in attaining sanctity. However, a comparison of the Latin sources with Ælfric's versions suggests that his translation style, characterized by simplifying the most important meanings of the text, omits certain words or entire episodes that foreground suppressed female sexuality as key to sainthood. The Old English Lives de-emphasize the physical nature of faith and highlight the importance of spiritual purity. In this volume, Alison Gulley explores how the context of the Benedictine Reform in late Anglo-Saxon England and Ælfric's commitment to writing for a lay audience resulted in a set of stories depicting a spirituality distinct from physical intactness.