Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints

Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated saints like the abbess Seaxburh, as well as familiar ones like Nicholas and Michael the Archangel. This volume presents new Old English editions and modern English translations of twenty-two unattributed saints' Lives.

Info autore

Johanna Kramer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri.Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus of English at Queen’s University Belfast.Robin Norris is Associate Professor of English at Carleton University.

Riassunto

Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated saints like the abbess Seaxburh, as well as familiar ones like Nicholas and Michael the Archangel. This volume presents new Old English editions and modern English translations of twenty-two unattributed saints’ Lives.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Johanna (EDT)/ Magennis Kramer
• Con la collaborazione di: Kramer Johanna (Editore e traduzione), Magennis Hugh (Editore e traduzione), Robin Norris (Editore e traduzione)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780674244641
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24464-1
• Pagine: 816
• Serie: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo; England, RELIGION / Christianity / Saints & Sainthood, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Christianity, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, 11th century, c 1000 to c 1099, 12th century, c 1100 to c 1199