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Aelfric Cult Saints Anglo-Saxon Eng

Gretsch, Mechthild

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Aelfric Cult Saints Anglo-Saxon Eng

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, Aelfric is the most important author, and his saints' Lives have never previously been explored in their contemporary setting. In this study, Gretsch analyzes Aelfric's Lives of five important saints in the light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England. This gives the reader fascinating glimpses of 'Aelfric 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.

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Title of ebook: Aelfric Cult Saints Anglo-Saxon Eng
ISBN: 9780511138324
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 2137 kb
Pages: 314
Released online for download: 01-30-2002
Author of eBook: Gretsch, Mechthild