The Old English Martyrology

The Old English Martyrology
Author: Christine Rauer
Publisher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1843843471

New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text.

The Old English Martyrology

The Old English Martyrology
Author: Christine Rauer
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781843844310

New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text. The Old English Martyrology is one of the longest and most important prose texts written in Anglo-Saxon England; it also represents one of the most impressive examples of encyclopaedic writing from the European Middle Ages.Probably intended as a reference work, it was used and transmitted for over 200 years, providing its readers with information on native and foreign saints, time measurement, the seasons of the year, biblical events, and cosmology. Its lively and engaging vignettes illustrate the importance of miracle stories for the early medieval cult of saints. This new edition presents a revised text, with a facing-page, newly-prepared English translation; they are accompanied by a commentary based on a fresh comparison with some 250 Latin and Old English texts, the first published glossary for this text, and extensive bibliographical information and indices. Dr Christine Raueris a Senior Lecturer in the School of English and the Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

The Cambridge Old English Reader

The Cambridge Old English Reader
Author: Richard Marsden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2015-04-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316240320

This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English language, along with a new extract from Beowulf. The fifty-seven individual texts include established favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Wulfstan's Sermon of the Wolf, as well as others not otherwise readily available, such as an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem are provided on the same page as the text, along with extensive notes. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with guides to pronunciation and to grammatical terminology. A comprehensive glossary lists and analyses all the Old English words that occur in the book. Headnotes to each of the six text sections, and to every individual text, establish their literary and historical contexts, and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English.

Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England

Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442646128

The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.

The Old English Lives of St. Margaret

The Old English Lives of St. Margaret
Author: Mary Clayton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1994-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521433822

An edition of two Old English versions of the colourful legend of St Margaret of Antioch.

An Old English Martyrology

An Old English Martyrology
Author: G. Herzfeld
Publisher: Early English Text Society
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2005-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780859918671

The Roman Martyrology

The Roman Martyrology
Author: Gregory XIII
Publisher: Aeterna Press
Total Pages: 420
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The Roman Martyrology is an official and accredited record, on the pages of which are set forth in simple and brief, but impressive words, the glorious deeds of the Soldiers of Christ in all ages of the Church; of the illustrious Heroes and Heroines of the Cross, whom her solemn verdict has beatified or canonized. In making up this long roll of honor, the Church has been actuated by that instinctive wisdom with which the Spirit of God, who abides in her and teaches her all truth, has endowed her, and which permeates through and guides all her actions. She is the Spouse of Christ, without spot or wrinkle or blemish, wholly glorious and undefiled, whom He loved, for whom He died, and to whom He promised the Spirit of Truth, to comfort her in her dreary pilgrimage through this valley of tears, and to abide with her forever. She is one with Him in Spirit and in love, she is subject to Him in all things; she loves what He loves, she teaches and practises what He commands. Aeterna Press

The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
Author: Malcolm Godden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 052119332X

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.