.png){kind=logo}
10%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses: with Modern English Parallel-Text Translations (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies LUP)
Robert K. Upchurch
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses: with Modern English Parallel-Text Translations (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies LUP)
Paperback. Offers the reader with modern English parallel-text translations. This title also provides an opportunity to emphasise different but related points about literal and figurative types of chastity and purity appropriate to the laity. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 256 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859897808
SKU
V9780859897808
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Robert K. Upchurch
Robert Upchurch is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of North Texas, Denton
Reviews for Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses: with Modern English Parallel-Text Translations (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies LUP)