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Anonymous interpolations in Aelfric's Lives of saints / edited by Robin Norris.
LIBRA PR1527 .A56 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Old English newsletter. Subsidia ; v. 35.
- Old English newsletter subsidia ; 35
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100.
- English literature.
- English literature--Old English.
- Christian literature, English (Old).
- Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Christian saints.
- Christian saints--Biography.
- Manuscripts, English (Old).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications/Western Michigan University, 2011.
- Summary:
- Though AElfric of Eynsham (c. 955-c. 1010) pleaded otherwise, his collection of saints lives had already been added to while he was still alive. The principal surviving manuscript, in the British Library, has four lives that scholars agree were not by AElfric, and these are discussed in turn by medievalists. So much scholarship on these texts has been designed to distinguish them from AElfric's work that their own merits have tended to be overlooked or interpreted as faults. An effort is made here to see them in their own light. They are the Life of Saint Euphrosyne and the economics of sanctity; Saint Mary of Egypt; the Seven Sleepers, eros, and the unincorporable infinite of the human person; and reversal of fortune, response, and reward in the Passion of Saint Eustace. There is no index. Medieval Institute Publications is at Western Michigan University. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- The Old English Life of Saint Euphrosyne and the economics of sanctity / Stephen Stallcup
- Saint Mary of Egypt in British Library, MS Cotton Otho B.x / Linda Cantara
- The Old English Seven sleepers, Eros, and the unincorporable infinite of the human passion / Eileen A. Joy
- Reversal of fortune, response, and reward in the Old English Passion of Saint Eustace / Robin Norris.
- Notes:
- This volume contains four essays: Life of Saint Euphrosyne, Saint Mary of Egypt, Seven sleepers, and Passion of Saint Eustace anonymously interpolated in Aelfric's Lives of Saints.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1580441637
- 9781580441636
- OCLC:
- 713567407
- Publisher Number:
- 99948170047
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