[PDF.12ji] Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)

Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)

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 | #5442950 in Books |  2009-01-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.63 x5.98l,.90 | File type: PDF | 276 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Real Look at Aelfric|By 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 was| |"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. Its greatest achievements are the unfolding, through patient analysis of sources that were o

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 mes...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)   |  Mechthild Gretsch. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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