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Book Aelfric s Lives of saints

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of saints written by Aelfric and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old English Lives of Saints

Download or read book Old English Lives of Saints written by Aelfric and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Aelfric s Lives of Saints

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of Saints written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aelfric s Lives of Saints

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of Saints written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Third Gender and Aelfric s Lives of Saints

Download or read book The Third Gender and Aelfric s Lives of Saints written by Rhonda L McDaniel and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism and then turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Aelfric's portrayals of male and female saints.

Book Aelfric s Lives of Saints

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of Saints written by Aelfric and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aelfric s Lives of Saints

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of Saints written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Displacement of the Body in   lfric s Virgin Martyr Lives

Download or read book The Displacement of the Body in lfric s Virgin Martyr Lives written by Dr Alison Gulley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Lives of the Saints

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nino Ricci
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2015-10-06
  • ISBN : 0771075995
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Lives of the Saints written by Nino Ricci and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When young Vittorio Innocente’s mother, Cristina, is bitten by a snake in the family stable, no one sees the blue-eyed stranger leaving except for Vittorio. He struggles to keep his mother’s secret but secrets in a small village are hard to keep, and while Cristina’s belly gradually grows under her loose dresses, they find themselves shunned by their superstitious neighbours. A classic of Canadian literature, Lives of the Saints has earned many distinctions since it was originally published in 1990. It was a national bestseller for seventy-five weeks, received the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction, the W.H. Smith / Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the F.G. Bressani Prize. In England it won the Betty Trask Award and Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, in the U.S. was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and in France was an Oeil de la letter Selection of the National Libraries Association. It was also adapted into a miniseries starring Sophia Loren.

Book Aelfric s Lives of Saints

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of Saints written by Aelfric and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aelfric s Lives of Saints  Being a Set of Sermons on Saint s Days Formerly Observed by the English Church

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of Saints Being a Set of Sermons on Saint s Days Formerly Observed by the English Church written by Abbot Of Eynsham Aelfric and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Aelfric s Lives of Saints

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of Saints written by Aelfric (abbé de Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aelfric s Lives of Saints

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  • Author : Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
  • Publisher : Arkose Press
  • Release : 2015-11-06
  • ISBN : 9781346111018
  • Pages : 572 pages

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of Saints written by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Discourse of Enclosure

Download or read book The Discourse of Enclosure written by Shari Horner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Ælfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literary representations of women and femininity. Horner argues that these representations derive from a "discourse" of female monastic enclosure, based on the increasingly strict rules of cloistered confinement that regulated the female religious body in the early Middle Ages. She shows that the female subjects of much Old English literature are enclosed by many layers—literal and figurative, textual, material, discursive, spatial—all of which image and reinforce the powerful institutions imposed by the Church on the female body. Though it has long been recognized that medieval religious women were enclosed, and that virginity was highly valued, this book is the first to consider the interrelationships of these two positions—that is, how the material practices of female monasticism inform the textual operations of Old English literature.

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

Download or read book Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo Saxon England written by Mechthild Gretsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 contemporary setting. In this study, Gretsch analyses Ælfric's Lives of five important saints in the light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England. This gives the reader fascinating glimpses of 'Ælfric at work': he adapts the cults and rewrites the received Latin hagiography of the five saints, with the result that each of their English Lives conveys a distinct message to the contemporary political elite and to a lay audience at large.