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Author:   Hugh Magennis ,  Mary Swan ,  Hugh Magennis ,  Mary Swan
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   18
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9789004176812

ISBN 10:   9004176810
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   02 June 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction, Hugh Magennis and Mary Swan 1. Ælfric Scholarship, Hugh Magennis 2. Ælfric: His Life and Works, Joyce Hill 3. Ælfric and the Limits of ‘Benedictine Reform’, Christopher A. Jones 4. Ælfric, Language and Winchester, Mechthild Gretsch 5. Ælfric and the Alfredian Precedents, Malcolm R. Godden 6. Ælfric’s Lay Patrons, Catherine Cubitt 7. Ælfric as Pedagogue, Thomas N. Hall 8. Catechetic Homiletics: Ælfric’s Preaching and Teaching During Lent, Robert K. Upchurch 9. Identity and Ideology in Ælfric’s Prefaces, Mary Swan 10. In Ælfric’s Words: Conversion, Vigilance and the Nation in Ælfric’s Life of Gregory the Great, Clare A. Lees 11. Ælfric’s Schemes and Tropes: Amplificatio and the Portrayal of Persecutors, Gabriella Corona 12. Boredom, Brevity and Last Things: Ælfric’s Style and the Politics of Time, Kathleen Davis 13. The Use of Ælfric’s Homilies: MSS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 85 and 86 in the Field, Jonathan Wilcox 14. Assembling Ælfric: Reconstructing the Rationale behind Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Compilations, Aaron J Kleist 15. Making their Presence Felt: Readers of Ælfric, c. 1050-1350, Elaine Treharne Bibliography Index

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On the rear cover of the present work, the publishers claim, This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Alfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England , and in every particular the claim is justified. This is a work that should be in the library of every university where Old English is on the curriculum, and it will be on the wish-list of every scholar and postgraduate student of Old English. Paul Cavill (2010), English Studies, 91:7, 790-791 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2010.517060)

On the rear cover of the present work, the publishers claim, ``This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of AElfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England'', and in every particular the claim is justified. This is a work that should be in the library of every university where Old English is on the curriculum, and it will be on the wish-list of every scholar and postgraduate student of Old English. Paul Cavill (2010), English Studies, 91:7, 790-791 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2010.517060)

Author Information

Hugh Magennis is Professor of Old English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast and Director of the University’s Institute of Theology. He has published widely on Old English and related literature, with particular reference to hagiography and Old English poetry. Mary Swan is Director of Studies and Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies in the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. She has published on late Anglo-Saxon prose texts and their transmission through to the early thirteenth century.

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