Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints
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Publication
2020 - Harvard University Press
Language
English
Word Count
204,000 words, Guess
Page Count
816 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780674244641
- ISBN-100674244648
- Library of Congress Control Number2019037897
- OCLC Control Number1112260564
- Better World Books9780674244641
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28060498M
Classifications
- LCCPR1508.A56 2020
- LCCPR1508 .A56 2020
Description
"In early medieval England, saints' Lives were eagerly received and translated into the vernacular. The stories collected here by unknown authors are preserved in manuscripts dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. They include locally venerated saints like the abbess Seaxburh, as well as universally familiar ones like Nicholas and Michael the Archangel, and are set everywhere from Antioch to Rome, from India to Ephesus. These Lives also explore such topics as the obligations of rulers, marriage and gender roles, private and public devotion, the environment, education, and the sweep of human history. This volume presents new Old English editions and modern English translations of twenty-two unattributed saints' Lives."--
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