Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England : adopting and adapting saints' lives into Old English prose (c. 950-1150) / edited by Loredana Lazzari, Patrizia Lendinara, Claudia Di Sciacca.
Publisher:
Fédération internationale des instituts d'études médiévales,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xviii, 589 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Hagiography in late Anglo-Saxon England : Aelfric of Eynsham and the Lives of Saints. The context of Aelfric's Saints' Lives / Joyce Hill -- Kingship and sainthood in Aelfric : Oswald (634-642) and Edmund (840-869) / Lordana Lazzari -- Hanging by a thread : Aelfric's Saints' Lives and the hengen / Susan Irvine -- Shame and honour in Anglo-Saxon hagiography, with special reference to Aelfric's Lives of Saints / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. -- Back to the roots of Christian monasticism : adopting and adapting the Vitas Patrum. "concupita, quaesita, ac petita solitudinis secreta" : the desert ideal in Bede's Vita S. Cuthberti and Aelfric's Life of St. Cuthbert / Claudia Di Sciacca -- The selection and compilation of the Verba Seniorum in Worcester, Cathedral Library / Winfried Rudolf -- Anglo-Saxon hagiography : texts and contexts. The Descensus ad inferos in the Old English prose Life of St Guthlac and Vercelli Homily xxiii / Concetta Gilberto -- The birth of Saint John the Baptist : a source comparison between Blickling Homily xiv and Aelfric's Catholic Homily I.xxv / Giuseppe D. De Bonis -- St Andrew in the Old English homiletic tradition / Claudio Cataldi -- An unfinished drawing of St. Benedict in a neglected manuscript of the Regula S. Benedicti (Cambridge, Trinity College, 0.2.30) / Maria Caterina de Bonis / Reading Tenth- and Eleventh- Century Latin hagiography in the context of the reign of King Aethelred II 'The Unready' / Catherine Cubitt -- Forgotten missionaries : St Augustine of Canterbury in Anglo-Saxon and post-conquest England / Lendinara Patrizia -- Rewriting Anglo-Saxon hagiography in Anglo-Norman England. The Anglo-Saxon saints of Thorney Abbey and their hagiographer / Rosalind Love -- St Oswald in Early English chronicles and narratives / Roberta Bassi.
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