Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to narrative, the individual poems show great inventiveness in reimagining perennial Christian topics. In different poems, for example, Christ expels Lucifer from heaven, resists the devil's temptation on earth, mounts the cross with zeal to face death, harrows hell at the urging of John the Baptist, appears in disguise to pilot a ship, and presides over the Last Judgment. Satan and the fallen angels lament their plight in a vividly imagined hell...
Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to...
The texts edited in this volume are AElfric's vernacular versions of two highly influential early medieval ethical treatises. The first, "De duodecim abusiuis," is his Old English version of a seventh-century Hiberno-Latin tract dealing with the twelve abuses of the world and the second, "De octo uitiis et de duodecim abusiuis," is a composite text; it combines a treatment of the eight vices and the complementary eight virtues, also found as the last part of AElfric's "Lives of Saints" XVI, with the twelve abuses. This new edition provides, for the first time, critical editions of both texts,...
The texts edited in this volume are AElfric's vernacular versions of two highly influential early medieval ethical treatises. The first, "De duodecim ...
