Holy Men and Holy Women by Paul E Szarmach

Holy Men and Holy Women by Paul E Szarmach

This collection of essays, focuses on the substantial body of saints' lives in Anglo-Saxon literature with special reference to Aelfric. The aim of these three collections has been to stimulate scholarly and critical interest in OE prose, thus redirecting the energies of Anglo-Saxonists towards a large body of material that has had comparatively few interpreters.

"This book will fill a major gap in the field of Anglo-Saxon studiesThe prose saints' lives represent a major body of surviving Old English literature, and have much to tell us about the culture, intellectual history, and literary traditions of the Anglo-Saxon period, but they have been generally neglected in favor of poetic texts and Anglo-Latin hagiography. Given the renewed interest in Old English prose and in medieval hagiography generally, this book is both timely and valuable. In addition, the contributions are of uniformly high quality, and represent diverse approaches and methodologies. The essays by Whatley and Hill make up a splendid introduction to the historical and literary study of hagiography." — Charles D. Wright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"This collection significantly advances knowledge of Old English prose saints' lives through its inclusion of resource materials, the results of basic research, and new interpretations of Aelfric's works that help us to better understand his aims and achievements as the leading author of prose saints' lives." — Mary P. Richards, Dean College of Arts & Sciences, University of Delaware

"This is a distinguished contribution to the field; I don't know how we got along without it for so long. The introduction by Whatley is magnificent, a model of its kind: 'cutting edge' scholarship yet readable, accessible to a wide audience. The pieces by Lapidge/Jackson, Joyce Hill, and Scragg will be standard reading. The literary articles are either excellent or provocative, usually both. This will be on every Anglo-Saxonist's bookshelf." — Roberta Frank, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

Paul E. Szarmach is Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He is the editor of Aspects of Medieval Culture in the Middle Ages; Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe; Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, and co-author (with Bernard F. Huppe) of Old English Homily and Its Background, all published by SUNY Press. He is also the editor of the SUNY series in Medieval Studies.

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ISBN 13	9780791427156
ISBN 10	0791427153
Title	Holy Men and Holy Women
Author	Paul E Szarmach
Series	Suny Series In Medieval Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1996-10-10
Number of pages	408
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