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This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England. The contributors include almost all of the key Ælfric scholars working today and some important newer voices. Each of the chapters is a cutting-edge piece of work which addresses one aspect of Ælfric’s works or career. The chapters are organised topically, rather than by chronology, genre or biography, and between them cover the entire Ælfrician corpus and the major contextual issues; consideration of Ælfric’s Latin writings is carefully integrated with that of his Old English works. Ælfric studies are currently a central element of Anglo-Saxon studies, but while to date there has been a great deal of detailed work on some aspects of Ælfric, this collection provides the first overview.
Contributors: Hugh Magennis, Joyce Hill, Christopher A. Jones, Mechthild Gretsch, M. R. Godden, Catherine Cubitt, Thomas N. Hall, Robert K. Upchurch, Mary Swan, Clare A. Lees, Gabriella Corona, Kathleen Davis, Jonathan Wilcox, Aaron J Kleist and Elaine Treharne.
Contributors: Hugh Magennis, Joyce Hill, Christopher A. Jones, Mechthild Gretsch, M. R. Godden, Catherine Cubitt, Thomas N. Hall, Robert K. Upchurch, Mary Swan, Clare A. Lees, Gabriella Corona, Kathleen Davis, Jonathan Wilcox, Aaron J Kleist and Elaine Treharne.
Price: $274.00
Pages: 480
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition
Publication Date:
02 June 2009
ISBN: 9789004176812
Format: Hardcover
"On the rear cover of the present work, the publishers claim, 'This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England', and in every particular the claim is justified. This is a work that should be in the library of every university where Old English is on the curriculum, and it will be on the wish-list of every scholar and postgraduate student of Old English." - Paul Cavill, in: English Studies, 91:7 (2010), 790-791 [DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2010.517060]
Hugh Magennis is Professor of Old English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast and Director of the University’s Institute of Theology. He has published widely on Old English and related literature, with particular reference to hagiography and Old English poetry.
Mary Swan is Director of Studies and Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies in the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. She has published on late Anglo-Saxon prose texts and their transmission through to the early thirteenth century.
Mary Swan is Director of Studies and Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies in the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. She has published on late Anglo-Saxon prose texts and their transmission through to the early thirteenth century.