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Zusatztext With this new edition by R.D. Fulk and Stephan Jurasinski, a gap in the availability in print of the Old English (OE) penitentials has been filled most satisfactorily. The edition complements very well the existing editions of the other vernacular penitential texts ... and it can be studied fruitfully alongside the online edition by allen J. Frantzen. Informationen zum Autor Stefan Jurasinski is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport. His publishedwork has focused on aspects of Anglo-Saxon legal history and on the literature of the early and late Middle Ages.He is at work currently on a book-length study of the Old English penitentials and a collaborative edition (with LisiOliver) of the laws of Alfred and Ine for the Early English Laws Project.R.D. Fulk is Class of 1964 Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University. His research centres onGermanic and Celtic languages and literatures of the Middle Ages (with special emphasis on Old English and OldNorse studies), and on comparative Indo-European linguistics, with particular attention to the history of the Englishlanguage. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung The Old English Canons of Theodore is one of the earliest handbooks of penance to appear in any West European vernacular. This edition situates the texts within the context of early penitential practice and social history, and provides a full bibliography and extensive commentary.
