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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Ælfric"”.
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Theorizing prayer in Anglo-Saxon England: Bede and Ælfric
… sincerity. Yet for the monks Bede (d. 735) and Ælfric (d. 1010) – the Anglo-Saxon authors who address prayer most explicitly and extensively – prayer was fundamentally the “repetition of sacred formulae” in the set prayers found in the liturgy. It was precisely this repetition that articulated a …
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'Deor and nytenu mid us': animals in the works of Ǽelfric
This dissertation examines the use of animals in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints and Catholic Homilies, outlining the transmission process of various sources of animal knowledge available to and used by Ælfric. The contexts in which Ælfric uses animals, which sources he uses in these passages and how he …
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ÆlfricBata’s Colloquia: Reassessing an Eleventh-Century Latin Textbook
… one collection of colloquies composed by Ælfric Bata (fl. 1005), a monk and teacher of Latin likely working in Winchester or Canterbury. Bata was a student of Ælfric of Eynsham (c.955–c.1010) and later editor of his work and his own colloquies continue in the same educational tradition. …
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The Christology of the Anglo-Saxon Homilies
… by analysing as separate groups the homilies of Ælfric, Wulfstan, and the anonymous collections in the Blickling Homiliary and the Vercelli Book. The introduction outlines the background and contexts of the homilies, their significance, and previous work in the field. A definition of Christology …
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The assembled body: Anatomical enumeration and embodiment in Anglo-Saxon devotional texts
… produced Byrhtferth, as well as a number of Ælfric of Eynsham's vernacular homilies. This project demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors employed such enumerative anatomical catalogs to highlight the vibrancy of the flesh at moments spiritual uncertainty. Casting the material body as an …
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To what extent do the writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York demonstrate a survival of heathen practices?
… the writings of Wulfstan and his contemporary Ælfric of Eynsham as well as earlier works that provide crucial background, such as the penitentials as well as later works in terms of two sagas which, although written later provide important context to an earlier time.<br/>My analysis …
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Humour in vernacular hagiography from the tenth to the thirteenth century in England
… translated by the tenth century monk and abbot, Ælfric of Eynsham, anonymous lives contemporary to him, and, lastly, a sampling of narratives from the earliest manuscript of the thirteenth century collection known as the South English Legendary. In order to identify literary humour this thesis …
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The 'lexis' of medieval computus in selected Anglo-Latin and Old English prose
… and, by way of comparison, studied and compared Ælfric’s and Byrhtferth’s late tenth/early eleventh vernacular computistical language. It has investigated whether the vocabulary of computus employed by Victorius and Dionysius was substantially different to the lexis employed by Bede, Abbo, …
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Gendering virginity and violence in Ælfric’s lives of female saints
… of the female saint and female sanctity in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints. Special attention is paid to the influence of the early-medieval ecclesiastical and secular contexts which resulted in the widespread glorification of the virginal status and the subsequent inextricability of virginity from …