Restoring Creation: The Natural World in the Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives of Cuthbert and Guthlac

An investigation into two important Saints Lives provides a window into the Anglo-Saxon perception of the non-human world.

List of contents

Introduction
Monastic Obedience and Prelapsarian Cosmography: The Anonymous Vita Sancti Cuthberti
Ruminative Poetry and the Divine Office: Bede's Metrical Vita Sancti Cuthberti
Bede's Exegesis and Developmental Sanctity: The Prose Vita Sancti Cuthberti
Enargaeic Landscapes and Spiritual Progression: Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci
Landscape Lexis and Creation Restored: The Old English Prose Life of Guthlac and Guthlac A
Conclusion: Afterlives of Cuthbert and Guthlac
Bibliography

About the author

Britton Elliott Brooks

Summary

An investigation into two important Saints Lives provides a window into the Anglo-Saxon perception of the non-human world.

Product details

• Authors: Britton Elliott Brooks
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781843845300
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-530-0
• No. of pages: 323
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 165 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 740 g
• Series: Nature and Environment in the; Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages; Nature and Environment in the; Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Englisch, England, 500 bis 1000 nach Christus