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Anonymous Old English lives of saints / edited and translated by Johanna Kramer, Hugh Magennis, Robin Norris.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 63.
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; DOML 63
- Language:
- English
- English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
- Subjects (All):
- Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Christian saints.
- Christian saints--Biography.
- Christian women saints--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Christian women saints.
- Christian literature, English (Old).
- Devotional literature, English--Early works to 1800.
- Devotional literature, English.
- Christian women saints--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 764 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- Text in Old English with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
- Summary:
- "The present volume presents new editions and translations of Old English anonymous prose saints' lives; existing editions and translations have been consulted, but the texts have been edited from the manuscripts and independently translated. The lives included in this collection are highly diverse in nature, differing in length, in approach, and in content; some are original compositions, some are lengthy translations, some are fragments of what were once longer lives; some venerate Anglo-Saxon saints, others saints from the early Church; the saints are martyrs, virgins, hermits, holy women, bishops, an apostle, and an archangel"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Saint Augustine of Canterbury
- Saint Chad
- Saint Euphrosyne
- Saint Eustace and his companions
- Saint Giles
- Saint Guthlac
- Saint James the Greater
- Saint Machutus
- Saint Margaret: Corpus Christi College Cambridge version
- Saint Margaret: Cotton Otho version
- Saint Margaret: Cotton Tiberius version
- Saint Mary of Egypt
- Saint Michael
- Saint Mildred: Cotton Caligula version
- Saint Mildred: Lambeth version
- Saint Neot
- Saint Nicholas
- Saint Pantaleon
- Saint Paulinus
- Saint Quentin
- Saint Seaxburh
- The seven sleepers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674244641
- 0674244648
- OCLC:
- 1112260564
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