Two AElfric Texts: "The Twelve Abuses" and "The Vices and Virtues" - An Edition and Translation of AElfric's Old English Versions of De duodecim abusivis and De octo vitiis et de duodecim abusivis (Hardcover)

Text with facing translation of two important Old English texts. 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. 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 lastpart of AElfric's Lives of Saints XVI, with the twelve abuses. The main source for the virtues and vices is Alcuin's ninth-century De uirtutibus et uitiis. Both texts were composed in AElfric's hallmark rhythmical, alliterative prose. This new edition provides, for the first time, critical editions of both texts, with a facing translation, presented with full apparatus; it also includes an extensive discussion of the sources and how theyare treated. MARY CLAYTON is Professor of Old and Middle English, University College Dublin.

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Anglo-Saxon Texts
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Mary Clayton
Translators:	Mary Clayton
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-84384-360-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	1-84384-360-9
Barcode:	9781843843603

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