Aelfric And the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-saxon England - 9780521855419

Name: Aelfric And the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-saxon England
Brand: Cambridge Univ Pr
Price: 70.35 EUR
Author: Gretsch Mechthild
ISBN: 9780521855419

di Mechthild Gretsch edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2006

€ 70.35

Aelfric And the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-saxon England libro di Gretsch Mechthild

Informazioni bibliografiche del Libro

Titolo del Libro: Aelfric And the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-saxon England
Autore: Mechthild Gretsch
Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
Collana: Cambridge Univ Pr (Hardcover)
Data di Pubblicazione: 31 Marzo '06
Genere: Lingua Inglese
Argomenti : Christian hagiography Christian saints Cult England History To 1500
Pagine: 263
Dimensioni mm: 234 x 165 x 25
ISBN-10: 0521855411
ISBN-13: 9780521855419

Aelfric And the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-saxon England: 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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