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Old English Lives of Saints Volume II

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Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Ælfric (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. Ælfric 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.

Author: AElfric
Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9780674241299
Cover: Hardback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2019
  • 11. Shrove Sunday
  • 12. On the Prayer of Moses for Mid-Lent Sunday
  • 13. Saint George
  • 14. Saint Mark and The Four Evangelists
  • 15. Memory of Saints
  • 16. On Omens
  • 17. Kings
  • 18. Saint Alban and On the Unjust
  • 19. Saint Æthelthryth
  • 20. Saint Swithun and Saint Macarius and the Sorcerers
  • 21. Saint Apollinaris
  • 22. Saints Abdon and Sennes and The Letter of Christ to Abgar
  • 23. The Martyrdom of the MaccabeesTheir Battles, and The Three Orders of Society
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on the Text
  • Notes to the Text
  • Notes to the Translation

Ælfric of Eynsham ( c. 955 – c. 1010) was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiographyhomiliesbiblical commentaries, and other genres. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian (Alfricus Grammaticus), Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist. In the view of Peter Hunter Blair, he was "a man comparable both in the quantity of his writings and in the quality of his mind even with Bede himself."[1] According to Claudio Leonardi, he "represented the highest pinnacle of Benedictine reform and Anglo-Saxon literature".

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