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Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses

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Informationen zum Autor Robert K. Upchurch is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, Denton. Klappentext Drawn from AElfric's Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As well as the Old English original texts, it provides the reader with modern English parallel-text translations. As a useful comparison, their closest Latin source texts are also reproduced - again with English parallel-text translations. As a leading churchman writing at the time of the Viking raids at the end of the first millennium, AElfric wrote his Lives to bolster the faith of English Christians. These three stories of couples who marry but do not consummate their unions point to an ideal of marital celibacy in AElfic's programme of pastoral care. Taken together, the group provides an opportunity to emphasise different but related points about literal and figurative types of chastity and purity appropriate to the laity. Zusammenfassung Drawn from Aelfric's Old English Lives of the Saints! this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa! Cecilia and Valerian! and Chrysanthus and Daria. As well as the Old English original texts! it provides the reader with modern English parallel-text translations.

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Robert K. Upchurch is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, Denton.

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Authors Robert K. Upchurch, Robert K. (EDT) Upchurch
Assisted by Robert K Upchurch (Editor), Robert K. Upchurch (Editor), Robert K Upchurch (Translation), Robert K. Upchurch (Translation)
Publisher University Of Chicago Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.02.2007
 
EAN 9780859897792
ISBN 978-0-85989-779-2
No. of pages 297
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
Series Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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