Title: Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints
Description: "In early medieval England, saints' Lives were eagerly received and translated into the vernacular. The stories collected here by unknown authors are preserved in manuscripts dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. They include locally venerated saints like the abbess Seaxburh, as well as universally familiar ones like Nicholas and Michael the Archangel, and are set everywhere from Antioch to Rome, from India to Ephesus. These Lives also explore such topics as the obligations of rulers, marriage and gender roles, private and public devotion, the environment, education, and the sweep of human history. This volume presents new Old English editions and modern English translations of twenty-two unattributed saints' Lives."--
Subjects: Saints, biography, Women saints, Christian literature, Devotional literature, English literature, Christian saints, Biography, Early works to 1800, Christian women saints, Christian literature, English (Old), English Devotional literature, Christian hagiography, History, English language, Texts, Old English, Saints chrétiens, Martyrs chrétiens