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Book Aelfric s Lives of Saints

Download or read book Aelfric s Lives of Saints written by Walter W. Skeat and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to   lfric

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh Magennis
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2009-06-02
  • ISBN : 9047430255
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book A Companion to lfric written by Hugh Magennis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England. The contributors include almost all of the key Ælfric scholars working today and some important newer voices. Each of the chapters is a cutting-edge piece of work which addresses one aspect of Ælfric’s works or career. The chapters are organised topically, rather than by chronology, genre or biography, and between them cover the entire Ælfrician corpus and the major contextual issues; consideration of Ælfric’s Latin writings is carefully integrated with that of his Old English works. Ælfric studies are currently a central element of Anglo-Saxon studies, but while to date there has been a great deal of detailed work on some aspects of Ælfric, this collection provides the first overview. Contributors: Hugh Magennis, Joyce Hill, Christopher A. Jones, Mechthild Gretsch, M. R. Godden, Catherine Cubitt, Thomas N. Hall, Robert K. Upchurch, Mary Swan, Clare A. Lees, Gabriella Corona, Kathleen Davis, Jonathan Wilcox, Aaron J Kleist and Elaine Treharne.

Book The Chronology and Canon of   lfric of Eynsham

Download or read book The Chronology and Canon of lfric of Eynsham written by Aaron J. Kleist and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh approach to the works and manuscripts of this influential monk, whose writings synthesised some of the finest minds of the period. A thousand years and more ago, with Vikings ravaging the coastlines and the millennium drawing nigh, a monk named Ælfric embarked on studies that would make him the most erudite, prolific, and influential author writing in English before Chaucer. What drove Ælfric was no desire to leave his mark on history, however, but the belief that he held a treasure on which the temporal and eternal welfare of his contemporaries depended: knowledge of the rich moral teachings of the early Christian church. What he produced was an astonishing synthesis of some of the finest minds in history, conveyed with remarkable authorial transparency and an elegantly simple style. While there is much we know about Ælfric, both from his own self-disclosure and the wealth of surviving manuscripts containing work by him, there is also much that muddies the waters: his feverish pace of simultaneous composition, his habit of reshaping and repurposing his writings, the staggering complexities of textual transmission, and competing scholarly interpretive voices. This volume seeks to take it all into account, setting forth a comprehensive picture of work and the manuscripts in which it may be found. Integrating scholars' best understanding to date and framing new avenues for inquiry, it offers a launching point for new research into this pivotal figure of early England. AARON J KLEIST is Professor of English at Biola University.

Book Aelfric s Catholic Homilies

Download or read book Aelfric s Catholic Homilies written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A very useful summary list of sources used by Ælfric... an essential companion to the two volumes.' -Years Work in English Studies 'From each visit, the reader carries away a richer total understanding of Ælfric the intellectual, teacher, or translator. As it places so conveniently in the hands of a wide audience the materials necessary for any informed reading of the Homilies, this book alone will greatly facilitate future work on Ælfric.' -Medium Ævum 'Scholars owe a twofold debt to Malcolm Godden for this book, important both for its own sake, as a research tool, and for the milestone it signals: completion of a long-needed critical edition of Ælfric's Old English Catholic Homilies.' -Medium Ævum 'Godden's Introduction, Commentary, and Glossary brings a triumphant closure to a project that will be of immense value for years to come. Ælfric is fortunate in his editors.' -Notes and QueriesCompanion volume to SS 5 and SS 17, completing the set

Book The Homilies of the Anglo Saxon Church

Download or read book The Homilies of the Anglo Saxon Church written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 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   lfric s Prefaces

Download or read book lfric s Prefaces written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Anglo Saxon Abbot    lfric of Eynsham

Download or read book An Anglo Saxon Abbot lfric of Eynsham written by Samuel Harvey Gem and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Penguin Book of the Undead

Download or read book The Penguin Book of the Undead written by Scott G. Bruce and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls. Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning carcasses in the form of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. Spanning from the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance, this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred years, showing the evolution in our thinking about the ability of dead souls to return to the realm of the living—and to warn us about what awaits us in the afterlife. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book   lfric of Eynsham

Download or read book lfric of Eynsham written by Helmut Gneuss and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally delivered as a lecture at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, this volume was published in 2002 as "Ælfric von Eynsham und seine Zeit," introducing, as Gneuss says, "an Anglo-Saxon author . . . who was the first, and for a long time the only, master of prose written in English."

Book Angles on a Kingdom

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  • Author : Joseph Grossi
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2021-07-05
  • ISBN : 1487505736
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Angles on a Kingdom written by Joseph Grossi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angles on a Kingdom analyses changing attitudes towards East Anglia within early medieval England as revealed in several important literary texts.

Book The Lost Abbey of Eynsham

Download or read book The Lost Abbey of Eynsham written by Steve Parrinder and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eynsham was one of the few religious foundations in England in continuous use from the late Saxon period to the Dissolution. This book aims to rescue this important abbey from obscurity by summarising its history and examining its material remains, most of which have never been published before.

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 Preaching and Theology in Anglo Saxon England

Download or read book Preaching and Theology in Anglo Saxon England written by Milton McC Gatch and published by . This book was released on 1977-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England, Professor Gatch deals with two aspects of the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan that have been hitherto ignored by scholars of the period. First, he investigates the uses for which the two homilists prepared their sermons, analysing the homiliaries of the Carolingian church and its legislation concerning preaching and teaching, and showing that one should look not to the model of patristic preaching but to the development, in the place of exegetical preaching, of a vernacular catechetical office, the Prone. He also considers the evidence from England in the time of Ælfric and Wulfstan, distinguishing a number of uses which Ælfric intended for his homiletic materials, but questioning whether users of Ælfric's work (Wulfstan perhaps among them) understood or accepted the basic homiletic practices that the abbot had in mind. Second, Gatch investigates the eschatological teaching of the homilists as specimen of the over-all content of their sermons and as indicator of their theological method. By throwing their work into relief against the background of the anonymous Old English homilists, he gives a more accurate picture than exists in textbook stereotypes of the beliefs of Ælfric and Wulfstan, and also of the general theological scene in England at the turn of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The first complete edition of Ælfric's Latin epitome of Julian of Toledo's Prognosticon futuri saeculi, one of the most important of Ælfric's theological sources, is appended to the text. This interdisciplinary study is an important addition to our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon culture and medieval church history, and a major contribution to the study of Old English homilies. For the uninitiated, it is an excellent introduction to Old English preaching; for the initiated, it opens a new field for investigation.

Book Anglo Saxon Gospels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aelfric
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-10-28
  • ISBN : 9781979179713
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Anglo Saxon Gospels written by Aelfric and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a copy of the original text from Manuscript 140, Corpus Christi College circa 1000 A.D., by AelfricThe Anglo-Saxon Gospels (also known as the West-Saxon Gospels) are a full translation of the four gospels of the Christian Bible into a West Saxon dialect of Old English and one of several Old English Bible translations. Produced in approximately 990 A.D. in present-day England, they are the first translation of all four gospels into English without the Latin text. Seven manuscript copies survive.In Old English.

Book AElfric s Colloquy

Download or read book AElfric s Colloquy written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1939 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selected Homilies of Aelfric

Download or read book Selected Homilies of Aelfric written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: