Anonymous Interpolations in Ælfric’s "Lives of Saints"

132 Pages·2011·1.158 MB·English

by  Robin Norris (ed.)

Anonymous
Interpolations
in Ælfric’s
Lives of Saints
Edited by Robin Norris
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Edited by Robin Norris
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Anonymous interpolations in Aelfric’s Lives of saints / edited by Robin
Norris.
p. cm. -- (Old English newsletter subsidia ; 35)
This volume contains four essays: Life of Saint Euphrosyne, Saint Mary of
Egypt, Seven sleepers, and Passion of Saint Eustace anonymously interpo-
lated in Aelfric’s Lives of Saints.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-58044-163-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100. 2. Christian literature,
English (Old) 3. Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800. 4.
Manuscripts, English (Old) I. Norris, Robin, 1974- II. Aelfric, Abbot of
Eynsham. Lives of saints.
PR1527.A56 2011
829’.8008--dc22
2011014197
P 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Abbreviations and Short Titles vii
Editor’s Note ix
Introduction 1
The Old English Life of Saint Euphrosyne 13
and the Economics of Sanctity
Stephen Stallcup†
Saint Mary of Egypt in British Library, MS Cotton Otho B.x 29
Linda Cantara
The Old English Seven Sleepers, Eros, and the 71
Unincorporable Infinite of the Human Person
Eileen A. Joy
Reversal of Fortune, Response, and Reward in the 97
Old English Passion of Saint Eustace
Robin Norris

Abbreviations and Short Titles
BHL Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina. 2 vols. Brussels, 1898–
1901.
BT Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller. An Anglo-Saxon
Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898.
“Contrasting” Hugh Magennis. “Contrasting Features in the Non-Ælfri-
cian Lives in the Old English Lives of Saints.” Anglia 104
(1986): 316–48.
HMHW Paul E. Szarmach, ed. Holy Men and Holy Women. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1996.
Ker N. R. Ker. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Reprinted 1990.
Mag Hugh Magennis. The Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt.
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Exeter: University of
Exeter Press, 2002.
PL Patrologia Latina. Ed. Jacques-Paul Migne. 221 vols. Paris,
1844–64. (Texts cited by column number.)
Rushforth Rebecca Rushforth. An Atlas of Saints in Anglo-Saxon Cal-
endars. ASNC Guides, Texts, and Studies 6. Cambridge:
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University
of Cambridge, 2002.
SASLC 1 Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas D. Hill, Paul E. Szarmach,
and E. Gordon Whatley, eds. Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary
Culture. Vol. 1. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications,
2001.
SASLC: Trial Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas D. Hill, and Paul E. Szarmach,
eds. Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version.
Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance
Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990.
Skeat Walter W. Skeat. Ælfric’s Lives of Saints. Early English Text
Society, o.s. 76, 82, 94, 114. Oxford, 1881–1900. Reprinted
as 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1966. (Texts
cited by line number.)
SS Hugh Magennis. The Anonymous Old English Legend of the
Seven Sleepers. Durham Medieval Texts 7. Durham: Durham
Medieval Texts, 1994.
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