Old English lives of saints /
These volumes contain a series of texts written by the Anglo-Saxon monastic author Ælfric between ca. 994 and 998 CE and assembled by him into a book now commonly referred to as his Lives of Saints (LS). Ælfric describes it in the Old English preface as a "book about the passions and lives of t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
| Language Notes: | Text in Old English with English translation on facing pages ; introduction and notes in English. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2019].
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| Series: | Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ;
58-60. |
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| Summary: | These volumes contain a series of texts written by the Anglo-Saxon monastic author Ælfric between ca. 994 and 998 CE and assembled by him into a book now commonly referred to as his Lives of Saints (LS). Ælfric describes it in the Old English preface as a "book about the passions and lives of those saints whom those who live in monasteries honor among themselves in their offices." He intended it to complement his two earlier series, now known as Catholic Homilies I and II (CH I and CH II), which had provided two collections for use in preaching to the laity and clergy throughout England. In composing this third collection and dedicating it to a powerful and very religious lay patron, Æthelweard, Ælfric was providing a series of texts that Æthelweard and other devout people, lay and religious, could use as spiritual reading or could listen to being read aloud. |
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| Physical Description: | 3 volumes ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674241725 9780674425095 067442509X 9780674241299 0674241290 067424172X |