[PDF.90lw] 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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||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 cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. 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. Of these Lives, Ælfric is the most important author, and his saints' Lives have never previously been explored in their contemp...

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