Translating England and the continent in Ælfric’s lives of saints

Thesis

This thesis argues that Ælfric of Eynsham deliberately adapted information from continental Latin sources in order to emphasise ideals of community, co-operation and collective identity to English audiences in his Lives of Saints, the most stylistically and narratively accomplished collection of hagiography composed in Early Medieval England. Moreover, it examines, for the first time, the Lives as a unified collection whose individual items comprise one thematic and didactic whole. Althoug...

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Authors: Ostacchini, L

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), and English
• Keywords: Old English Literature; Hagiography; England and the Continent; Europe; Translation; Ælfric; Benedictine Reform
• Subjects: Hagiography; Literature, Medieval; Saints; Christian literature, English (Old)