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Striving with grace : views of free will in Anglo-Saxon England /

"The question of whether or not our decisions and efforts make a difference in an uncertain and uncontrollable world had enormous significance for writers in Anglo-Saxon England. Striving with Grace looks at seven authors, who wrote in either Latin or Old English, and the ways in which they sou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kleist, Aaron J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
Colección:Toronto Old English series ; 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A doctrine defined : the influence of Augustine
  • 2. Cooperating with grace : Gregory the Great, apostle to the English
  • 3. Meriting grace : The Venerable Bede
  • Alfred the Great and the Old English Boethius
  • 5. Lantfred of Winchester and the Carmen de libero arbitrio
  • 6. Wulstan the Homilist and De adiutorio Dei et libero arbitrio
  • 7. Ælfric of Eynsham and the Sermones catholici
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I : Patristic texts in Paul the Deacon and Smaragdus
  • Appendix II : Bede's Homiliae
  • Editions and parallels to In Lucae
  • Appendix III : Primary texts.