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

Posted By: DZ123
Date: 21 Mar 2015 17:51:38
Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Mechthild Gretsch, "Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0521855411 | PDF | pages: 277 | 2,1 mb

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.

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