Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England

Adopting and Adapting Saints' Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150)

Edited by Loredana Lazzari Edited by Patrizia Lendinara Edited by Claudia Di Sciacca

Book cover: Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England

Extent: 607, 607 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Textes et Etudes du Moyen Age

Series volume number: 73

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2014)

ISBN: 9782503551999

Price: $82.00

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This volume gathers fourteen new essays devoted to Old English prose saints’ lives from the late Anglo-Saxon period moving from diverse methodological approaches and building on the most recent developments in primary and secondary scholarship.


This volume gathers fourteen new essays devoted to Old English prose saints’ lives from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Moving from diverse methodological approaches and building on the most recent developments in primary and secondary scholarship, the contributions comprehensively consider the texts and contexts of the vernacular hagiographic output both by Aelfric, the major hagiographer of his day, and by anonymous authors. By means of a comprehensive scrutiny of the Latin source-texts, including the often neglected Vitas Patrum, as well as of both the historical and manuscript context, this collection contributes to outline the late Anglo-Saxon sanctorale and to advance our knowledge of the literary culture and intellectual history of pre-Conquest England and beyond.Contributors:Roberta Bassi, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr., Claudio Cataldi, Catherine Cubitt, Giuseppe D. De Bonis, Maria Caterina De Bonis, Claudia Di Sciacca, Concetta Giliberto, Joyce Hill, Susan Irvine, Loredana Lazzari, Patrizia Lendinara, Rosalind Love, Winfried Rudolf.

HAGIOGRAPHY IN LATE ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND: AeLFRIC OF EYNSHAM AND THE LIVES OF SAINTS Joyce HILL (University of Leeds), The Context of Aelfric's Saints' Lives Loredana LAZZARI (LUMSA, Roma), Kingship and Sainthood in Aelfric: Oswald and Edmund Susan IRVINE (University College London), Hanging by a Thread: Aelfric's Saints' Lives and the hengen Rolf Bremmer (University of Leiden), Honour and Shame in Aelfric's Lives of Saints BACK TO THE ROOTS OF CHRISTIAN MONASTICISM: ADOPTING AND ADAPTING THE VITAS PATRUM Claudia DI SCIACCA (University of Udine), concupita, quaesita, ac petita solitudinis secreta: The Desert Ideal in Bede's Vita S. Cuthberti and Aelfric's Life of St Cuthbert Winfried Rudolf (University of Gottingen), The Selection and Revision of Verba Seniorum in Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48 ANGLO-SAXON HAGIOGRAPHY: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Concetta Giliberto (University of Palermo), The Descensus ad inferos in the Old English Prose Life of St Guthlac and Vercelli Homily xxiii Giuseppe D. De Bonis (University of Neaples 'L'Orientale'), The Birth of Saint John the Baptist: a Source Comparison between Blickling homily xiv and Aelfric's Catholic Homily I.25 Claudio Cataldi (University of Palermo), St Andrew in the Old English Homiletic Tradition Patrizia Lendinara (University of Palermo), Forgotten Missionaries Maria Caterina De Bonis (University of Potenza), An Unfinished Drawing of St Benedict in a Neglected Manuscript of the Regula Sancti Benedicti (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.30) Catherine Cubitt (University of York), Reading 10-11th Century Benedictine Hagiography against the Politics of the Reign of Aethelred THE POST-CONQUEST LEGACY OF ANGLO-SAXON HAGIOGRAPHY Rosalind Love (University of Cambridge), Folcard of Saint-Bertin and the Anglo-Saxon Saints at Thorney Roberta Bassi (Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3), St Oswald in Early English Chronicles and Narratives

  • Edited by Loredana Lazzari
  • Edited by Patrizia Lendinara
  • Edited by Claudia Di Sciacca