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Anhyld þinre heortan eare: Mind as Body in the Sermons of Ælfric [PDF]
Open Library of HumanitiesBy using a metaphor of the mind as body, with eyes, and ears, a throat and voice, Ælfric explains the complexities of an Augustinian understanding of the mind in comparatively simple terms, to lead: ‘those who dwell in cities and towns and villages ...
Eleni Ponirakis
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The Chronology and Canon of Ælfric of Eynsham by Aaron J. Kleist
, 2022 The Chronology and Canon of Ælfric of Eynsham. By Aaron J. Kleist. Anglo-Saxon Studies, 37. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019. Pp.
Lowe, Kathryn A.
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Creating a gens Anglorum: Social and Ethnic Identity in Anglo-Saxon England through the Lens of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis examines of the role of Bede in the creation of an English national identity by considering the use, re-use and transmission of the Historia Ecclesiastica across the Anglo-Saxon period. Bede's exemplary and providential history had created an
McKinney, Windy A.
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Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: Ælfric and Bible Translation [PDF]
, 2006 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/view/12547The Old English homilist Ælfric is well known for his reluctance to translate the Bible and other patristic works into the vernacular; nonetheless, his corpus includes a large number of such ...
Major, Tristan
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The audience for Old English texts: Ælfric, rhetoric and ‘the edification of the simple’ [PDF]
, 2014 There is a persistent view that Old English texts were mostly written to be read or heard by people with no knowledge of Latin, or little understanding of it, especially the laity.
Gittos, Helen
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SELIMThe language of Genesis is simple, says Ælfric in his preface to his translation of it, but its meaning is complex. Exactly the same is true of his preface—which therefore calls out for detailed interpretation, just as, in his view, does this book of ...
Mark Griffith
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 560-591, November 2020., 2020 This article investigates the motivations behind royal pilgrimage to Rome in the early Middle Ages by examining the journeys of three Welsh kings (Cyngen ap Cadell in 854, Hywel in 886, and Hywel Dda in 928). These journeys have rarely been considered as a group, and in bringing them together this article proposes a new interpretation of Welsh royal ...
Rebecca Thomas
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Lights, power and the moral economy of early medieval Europe
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 367-387, August 2020., 2020 By the beginning of the early Middle Ages the convention that each church should have a light burning at all times on the altar was strongly established. This paper examines how elites promulgated this idea and benefitted from their ability to furnish lighting material (oil and wax) when this was becoming scarce and expensive.
Paul Fouracre
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Emotional Communities in Ælfric’s Maccabees [PDF]
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2018 The present article studies Ælfric of Eynsham’s homily based on the biblical books of Maccabees. It uses Barbara H. Rosenwein’s concept of an “emotional community” to elucidate Ælfric’s treatment of anger and violence in the process of adapting the ...
Jacek Olesiejko
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1994 Este trabajo analiza, desde el punto de vista de la pragmática literaria, y más concretamente desde la teoría de la cortesía lingüística, dos textos del inglés antiguo: el poema heroico La batalla de Maldon y la narración en prosa de Aelfric sobre la ...
Pilar Garcés Conejos +1 more
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