Aelfric: Old English Lives of Saints

Cover: 9780674425095 | Old English Lives of Saints | Aelfric | Buch | Englisch | 2019

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Sprache: Englisch

Originalsprache: Altenglisch (ca. 450-1100)

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Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints-including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops-for 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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Mittelalter
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780674425095
ISBN-10:	067442509X
Sprache:	Englisch
Originalsprache:	Altenglisch (ca. 450-1100)
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Aelfric
Redaktion:	Clayton, Mary Mullins, Juliet
Übersetzung:	Clayton, Mary Mullins, Juliet
Hersteller:	Harvard University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	215 x 138 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Aelfric
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.11.2019
Gewicht:	0,496 kg