Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England

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Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Name: Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521855419

Mechthild Gretsch

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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. 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'. 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.

Categorie:

Religion & Spirituality - Christianity

Anno:

2006

Casa editrice:

Cambridge University Press

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

276

ISBN 10:

0511140843