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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 235.2094209021
EAN: 9780521855419
ISBN: 0521855411
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 276
Publication Date: 2006-03-20
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press

The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' lives in the vernacular. This study analyzes the most important author Aelfric's lives of five important saints in the light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England, providing the reader fascinating glimpses of 'Aelfric at work'. He adapts the cults and rewrites the received Latin hagiography so that each of their lives conveys a distinct message to the contemporary political elite as well as to a lay audience at large.