AElfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses by Robert K. Upchurch & Michael Swanton & Marion Glasscoe

Providing the reader with modern English parallel-text translations, this book places the "Lives of the Virgin Spouses" in literary-historical, manuscript and social contexts. It also complements and provides a contrast with Hugh Magennis's "The Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt", published in the "Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies" series. As well as the Old English original texts, this title 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 the 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 the literal and figurative types of chastity and purity appropriate to the laity. User-friendly format presents the Old English and Latin texts alongside facing-page modern English translations. The introduction places the "Lives of the Virgin Spouses" in literary-historical, manuscript and social contexts and explores AElfric's interest in the hagiographical genre of chaste marriage. The book complements, and provides a fascinating contrast with, Hugh Magennis's "The Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt", also published in the "Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies" series.
`Author(s) :` Michael Swanton & Marion Glasscoe	`Format :` Hardback Book
`ISBN-10 :` 0859897796	`ISBN-13 :` 9780859897792
`RRP :` £55.00	`Best available price :` £ / $
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Product Details:

Series Title : Exeter Medieval Texts & Studies S.

Country Publication : United Kingdom

Publication Date : 01/05/2007

Publisher : University of Exeter Press

Page Length : 320mm

Page Size : 229mm