Old English Lives of Saints, Volume I

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Author: Mary Clayton, Juliet Mullins
Publisher: HARVARD UNIV PRESS
Edition: Fri Nov 29 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
ISBN-13: 9780674425095
Publishing year: Fri Nov 29 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
No of pages: 400
Weight: 318 grm
Language: ENGLISH
Book binding: hardcover

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ives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saintsincluding virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishopsfor a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time when England was under increasingly severe Viking attack, the examples of these saints modeled courageous faith, self-sacrifice, and individual and collective resistance. The Lives also covers topics as diverse as the four kinds of war, the three orders of society, and whether the unjust can be exempt from eternal punishment. Aelfric intended this series to complement his Catholic Homilies, two important and widely disseminated collections used for preaching to lay people and clergy. The translation is presented alongside a new edition of Lives of Saints, for which all extant manuscripts have been collated afresh.