The Old English Martyrology

Download or read book The Old English Martyrology written by Christine Rauer and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text.

Download or read book The Old English Martyrology written by Christine Rauer and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text. The Old English Martyrology is one of the longest and most important prose texts written in Anglo-Saxon England; it also represents one of the most impressive examples of encyclopaedic writing from the European Middle Ages.Probably intended as a reference work, it was used and transmitted for over 200 years, providing its readers with information on native and foreign saints, time measurement, the seasons of the year, biblical events, and cosmology. Its lively and engaging vignettes illustrate the importance of miracle stories for the early medieval cult of saints. This new edition presents a revised text, with a facing-page, newly-prepared English translation; they are accompanied by a commentary based on a fresh comparison with some 250 Latin and Old English texts, the first published glossary for this text, and extensive bibliographical information and indices. Dr Christine Raueris a Senior Lecturer in the School of English and the Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Download or read book Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England written by Paul E. Szarmach and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.

Download or read book An Old English Martyrology written by Georg Herzfeld and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Old English Reader written by Richard Marsden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English language, along with a new extract from Beowulf. The fifty-seven individual texts include established favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Wulfstan's Sermon of the Wolf, as well as others not otherwise readily available, such as an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem are provided on the same page as the text, along with extensive notes. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with guides to pronunciation and to grammatical terminology. A comprehensive glossary lists and analyses all the Old English words that occur in the book. Headnotes to each of the six text sections, and to every individual text, establish their literary and historical contexts, and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English.

Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Prognostics written by R. M. Liuzza and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edition and translation of prognostic guides and calendars, intended as an effort to foretell the future.

Download or read book The Old English Lives of St. Margaret written by Mary Clayton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edition of two Old English versions of the colourful legend of St Margaret of Antioch.