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Royal authority in the biblical quotations of the Old English Pastoral Care
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The Old English Pastoral Care, a late-ninth-century translation of Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis attributed to Alfred the Great, is a text without a clear authorial voice. Gregory’s authorial presence is hinted at in the metrical preface and epilogue to the translation, but is curiously absent from the prose preface. Here, at the very beginning of the text, the authorial voice is that of King Alfred. Whether or not Alfred was actually responsible for translating the Regula pastoralis,...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Verlag Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Neophilologus Journal website
- Volume:
- 102
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 125-140
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-15
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- EISSN:
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1572-8668
- ISSN:
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0028-2677
- Source identifiers:
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824237
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- 2018-02-13
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- © Faulkner 2017
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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