Aelfric and the cult of saints in late Anglo-Saxon England /

Aelfric and the cult of saints in late Anglo-Saxon England /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gretsch, Mechthild.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 263 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ; 34 Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ; 34.
Subject:	Aelfric, -- Abbot of Eynsham. Aelfric, -- Abbot of Eynsham. Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500. Christian saints -- Cult -- England -- History -- To 1500. Christian hagiography. Christian saints -- Cult. England. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11812303

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ISBN:	0511140843 9780511140846 0511140312 9780511140310 0511139543 9780511139543 9780511483349 0511483341 9780511140075 051114007X 0521855411 9780521855419 1107155371 9781107155374 1280309040 9781280309045 0511312229 9780511312229
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-257) and indexes. English. Print version record.
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.
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

Table of Contents:

Aelfric's sanctorale and the Benedictional of Aethelwold
Gregory : the apostle of the English
Cuthbert : from Northumbrian saint to saint of all England
Benedict : father of monks--and what else?
Swithun and Aethelthryth : two saints 'of our days'.