Tradition and Belief

Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England

By: Clara A. Lees

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In this major study of Angle-Saxon religious tests sermons, homilies, and saints' lives written in Old English -- Clare A. Lees reveals how the invention of preaching transformed the early medieval church, and thus the culture of medieval England in placing Anglo-Saxon prose within a social matrix, her work offers a new way of seeing medieval literature through the lens of cultures.

To show how the preaching mission of the later Anglo-Saxon church was constructed and received, Lees explores the emergence of preaching from the traditional structures of the early medieval church -- its institutional knowledge, genres, and beliefs. Understood as a powerful rhetorical, social, and epistemological process, preaching is shown to have helped define the sociocultural concerns specific to late Anglo-Saxon England.

The first detailed study of traditionality in medieval culture, Tradition and Belief is also a case study of one cultural phenomenon from the past. As such -- and by concentrating on the theoretically problematic areas of history, religious belief, and aesthetics -- the book contributes to debates about the evolving meaning of culture.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Classical Literary Studies History General & World History Religion & Beliefs Aspects of Religion for Non-Christians Christianity Christian Worship, Rites & Ceremonies

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Tradition, Literature, History	p. 19
Aesthetics and Belief Ælfric's False Gods	p. 46
Conventions of Time in the Old English Homiletic Corpus	p. 78
The Teachers and the Taught	p. 106
Chastity and Charity Ælfric, Women, and the Female Saints	p. 133
Conclusion	p. 154
Notes	p. 157
Works Cited	p. 173
Index	p. 189
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