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Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
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Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England
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The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in
the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing
group identities in a town, a province or a country. 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. Of these Lives, AElfric is the most important
author, and his saints' Lives have never previously been explored
in their contemporary setting. In this study, Gretsch analyses
AElfric's Lives of five important saints in the light of their
cults in Anglo-Saxon England. This gives the reader fascinating
glimpses of 'AElfric at work': he adapts the cults and rewrites the
received Latin hagiography of the five saints, with the result that
each of their English Lives conveys a distinct message to the
contemporary political elite and to a lay audience at large.
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