Free Download Luisa Ostacchini, "Translating Europe in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints "
English | ISBN: 0198913737 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Translating Europe in Ælfric’s ‘Lives of Saints’ is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England’s most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose various items work cumulatively and concurrently to provide audiences with teachings far beyond the scope of an individual homily or saints’ life. In doing so, it demonstrates that Ælfric’s European characters and settings served not merely as a convenient skeleton on which to frame his hagiographical narratives, but rather lay at the heart of his didactic praxis and pedagogic aims.