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'Preface' al volume Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon Egland

2014

The Preface to the volume Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints’ Lives into Old English Prose describes the contents of the essays within the aims of the larger project on Anglo-Saxon and early Middle English hagiography

Hagiography Anglo-Saxon Early Middle English Saints' livesSettore L-FIL-LET/15 - Filologia Germanica
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'Forgotten Missionaries: St Augustine of Canterbury in Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest England’

2014

The essay provides a full overview of the alternate fortune of the cult of St Augustine of Canterbury and other missionaries, who hold a distinctive place in Anglo-Saxon hagiography. The essay takes into examination both literary and liturgical witnesses and both pre- and post-Conquest texts, in Latin and the vernacular. The narrative of the mission and of Augustine himself offered by Bede, although inevitably partial, shaped all the successive representations of the saint in the few literary witnesses dating from the Anglo-Saxon period. The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum will remain the major source also in post-Conquest England and be largely drawn upon by Goscelin. For its part, …

HistoryAnglo saxonSettore L-FIL-LET/15 - Filologia GermanicaAncient historyArchaeologyHagiography St Augustine of Canterbury Anglo-Saxon Early Middle EnglishCONQUEST
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