Author: Bruno AssmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 318
Book Description
Angelsächsische Homilien und Heiligenleben
Author: Bruno AssmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : de
Pages : 312
Book Description
Angelsächsische Homilien und Heiligenleben
Author: Bruno AssmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Angelsächsische Homilien und Heiligenleben
Author: Bruno AssmannAngelsächsische Homilien und Heiligenleben
Author: Bruno AssmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saints
Languages : de
Pages : 294
Book Description
Angelsachsische Homilien und Heiligenleben
Author: Bruno AssmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Anglia
Author: Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life
Author: Vera da Silva SinhaPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261245
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping personal identity. The volume brings together selected peer-reviewed papers from the 7th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind with other specially commissioned chapters. Like the conference, this book aims to enhance mutual understanding among researchers from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, offering a wealth of insights to a wide range of readers on recent culturally oriented cognitive studies of language.
The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives
Author: Alison GulleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317035526
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations, from Latin source material, by the abbot and grammarian Ælfric. The vitae of Agnes, Agatha, Lucy, and Eugenia, and the married saints Daria, Basilissa, and Cecilia, included in Ælfric's s Old English Lives of Saints, recount the lives, persecution, and martyrdom of young women who renounce sex and, in the first four stories, marriage, to devote their lives to Christian service. They purport to be about the primacy of virginity and the role of the body in attaining sanctity. However, a comparison of the Latin sources with Ælfric's versions suggests that his translation style, characterized by simplifying the most important meanings of the text, omits certain words or entire episodes that foreground suppressed female sexuality as key to sainthood. The Old English Lives de-emphasize the physical nature of faith and highlight the importance of spiritual purity. In this volume, Alison Gulley explores how the context of the Benedictine Reform in late Anglo-Saxon England and Ælfric's commitment to writing for a lay audience resulted in a set of stories depicting a spirituality distinct from physical intactness.
Old English Literature and the Old Testament
Author: Michael FoxPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442620269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both in terms of content and modes of interpretation. Though the Old Testament was only partially translated into Old English, recent studies have shown how completely interconnected Anglo-Latin and Old English literary traditions are. Old English Literature and the Old Testament considers the importance of the Old Testament from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from comparative to intertextual and historical. Though the essays focus on individual works, authors, or trends, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, Genesis A, and Daniel, each ultimately speaks to the vernacular corpus as a whole, suggesting approaches and methodologies for further study.
Veiled Women
Author: Sarah FootPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351963317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
There is no published account of the history of religious women in England before the Norman Conquest. Yet, female saints and abbesses, such as Hild of Whitby or Edith of Wilton, are among the most celebrated women recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources and their stories are of popular interest. This book offers the first general and critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It transforms our understanding of the different modes of religious vocation and institutional provision and thereby gives early medieval women’s history a new foundation.