The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours

508 Pages·2017·5.84 MB·English

by  Andre Mertens

t Martin of Tours is one of Christianity’s major saints and his signifi cance Andre Mertens
Sreaches far beyond the powerful radiance of his iconic act of charity. While
the saint and his cult have been researched comprehensively in Germany
and France, his cult in the British Isles proves to be fairly unexplored. Andre The Old English Lives
Mertens closes this gap for Anglo-Saxon England by editing all the age’s
of St Martin of Tours
surviving texts on the saint, including a commentary and translations.
Moreover, Mertens looks beyond the horizon of the surviving body of literary
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relics and dedicates an introductory study to an analysis of the saint’s cult
in Anglo-Saxon England and his signifi cance for Anglo-Saxon culture.
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Andre Mertens The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours
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The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours

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Andre Mertens

The Old English Lives
of St Martin of Tours

Edition and Study

Universitätsverlag Göttingen
2017
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St Martin’s Dream in the “Fuldaer Sakramentar” (SUB Göttingen, 2 Cod. Ms.
theol. 231 Cim., fol. 113 r), including the oldest surviving depiction of the Charity
of St Martin (c. 975 AD); printed with kind permission of the Niedersächsische
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
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