This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in late-tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by AEthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, of his influential school. The early stages of AEthelwold's scholarly career are explored and new light is shed on the role which King AEthelstan's cosmopolitan court played. Two widely influential Old English texts are definitively attributed to AEthelwold and his circle, which attest to the importance that the reformers attached to the vernacular.
This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in late-tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and th...
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.
The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' lives in the vern...
This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in late-tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by AEthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, of his influential school. The early stages of AEthelwold's scholarly career are explored and new light is shed on the role which King AEthelstan's cosmopolitan court played. Two widely influential Old English texts are definitively attributed to AEthelwold and his circle, which attest to the importance that the reformers attached to the vernacular.
This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in late-tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and th...
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.
The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' lives in the vern...
