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  1. Ælfric's Life of Saint Basil the Great
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    Author: Aelfric
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  D.S. Brewer, Cambridge, UK

    Full study, with text and facing translation, of an influential tenth-century work. The life and thought of Saint Basil the Great [329-79] were a seminal influence on western theology and monasticism, their echoes reaching as far as Anglo-Saxon... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Full study, with text and facing translation, of an influential tenth-century work. The life and thought of Saint Basil the Great [329-79] were a seminal influence on western theology and monasticism, their echoes reaching as far as Anglo-Saxon England: the hagiographic tradition of this saint began in Greek, butby the end of the tenth century had already been translated three times into Latin and once into Old English. This book presents a new edition and translation of the Old English text, prepared by ©†lfric of Eynsham in the tenth century, with an edition of one of the Latin versions of the Vita Basilii. These are complemented by the first ever full-length study of the hagiographies of Basil, setting these textual traditions against their wider intellectual background. It outlines evidence for the cult of Saint Basil in Anglo-Saxon England from the late-seventh century, together with the influence of his theological thought, especially upon Bede's work. It then moves on toexplore the Old English translation in detail, setting it in the context of the English Benedictine reform

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Corona, Gabriella (Publisher)
    Language: English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781846158971
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    Series: Anglo-Saxon texts
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    Subjects: Christian literature, English (Old)
    Other subjects: Basil / Saint, Bishop of Caesarea / approximately 329-379; Aelfric / Abbot of Eynsham / Life of Saint Basil the Great
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 272 Seiten)
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    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Mar 2023)