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Tradition And Belief : Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England /
In this major study of Anglo-Saxon religious texts--sermons, homilies, and saints' lives written in Old English--Clare A. Lees reveals how the invention of preaching transformed the early medieval church, and thus the culture of medieval England. By placing Anglo-Saxon prose within a social mat...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1999.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Culture and Belief; 1. Tradition, Literature, History; 2. Aesthetics and Belief: AElfric's False Gods; 3. Conventions of Time in the Old English Homiletic Corpus; 4. Didacticism and the Christian Community: The Teachers and the Taught; 5. Chastity and Charity: AElfric, Women, and the Female Saints; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.