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Excerptiones de Prisciano

By: Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.),Priscian

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Excerptiones de Prisciano

By: Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.),Priscian

First edition of 10th-century compendium of grammatical lore, second only in importance to Ælfric's own Grammar. When the famous Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric wrote the first grammar in a European vernacular, he used as his direct source the Excerptiones de Prisciano excerpts from major curriculum authors of the medieval schools, including Donatus, Isidore and Priscian himself . The tenth-century text, probably of English origin, most probably compiled by Ælfric, is an ambitious compendium of grammatical lore, and it is, with the exception of Ælfric's own Grammar, arguably the most sophisticated Latin-learning text of the Anglo-Saxon age. Edited here for the first time, the Excerptiones appear with all scholia, an English translation, and a full contextual introduction. DAVID W. PORTER is Professor of English, Southern University, Baton Rouge.

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430

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DS Brewer

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ISBN 10

0859916359

ISBN 13

9780859916356

The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict

With Related Old English Texts

By: Saint Benedict (Abbot of Monte Cassino)

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The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict

With Related Old English Texts

By: Saint Benedict (Abbot of Monte Cassino)

Intro -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations of Authors and Works Cited -- Maps -- Introduction -- The Rule of Saint Benedict as Translated by Saint Æthelwold of Winchester -- Appendix 1: I. Concerning the Kinds of Monks (BL MS. Cotton Faustina A. x) -- Appendix 2: LXII. Concerning the Monastery's Priests and Their Servants (BL MS. Cotton Faustina A. x) -- Appendix 3: "King Edgar's Establishment of Monasteries"--Appendix 4: Ælfric's Homily On Saint Benedict, Abbot -- Bibliography

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Liturgical Press

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0879072644

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9780879072643

Ælfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses

With Modern English Parallel-text Translations

By: Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.)

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Ælfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses

With Modern English Parallel-text Translations

By: Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.)

Drawn from Aelfric's Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As well as the Old English original texts, it provides the reader with modern English parallel-text translations. As a useful comparison, their closest Latin source texts are also reproduced - again with English parallel-text translations. As a leading churchman writing at the time of the Viking raids at the end of the first millennium, Aelfric wrote his Lives to bolster the faith of English Christians. These three stories of couples who marry but do not consummate their unions point to an ideal of marital celibacy in Aelfric's programme of pastoral care. Taken together, the group provides an opportunity to emphasise different but related points about literal and figurative types of chastity and purity appropriate to the laity.

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Liverpool University Press

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085989780X

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9780859897808

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Excerptiones de Prisciano

Excerptiones de Prisciano

The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict

The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict

Ælfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses

Ælfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses

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