Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0511140843
9780511140846
0511140312
9780511140310
0511139543
9780511139543
9780511483349
0511483341
9780511140075
051114007X
0521855411
9780521855419
1107155371
9781107155374
1280309040
9781280309045
0511312229
9780511312229
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-257) and indexes.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "In this study, Gretsch analyses Aelfric's Lives of five important saints in the light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England, namely Gregory, the Roman pope; Benedict, the founder of western Monasticism; Cuthbert, the Northumbrian saint; Swithun of Winchester; and Aethelthryth of Ely. This analysis gives the reader 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."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Gretsch, Mechthild. Aelfric and the cult of saints in late Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521855411
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