Article: AElfric, St Edmund, and St Edwold of Cerne.(Critical essay)

At the end of his Life of St Edmund, AElfric comments on the number of English men and women venerated as saints: 'England is not deprived of God's holy ones.' (1) AElfric himself wrote few homilies for the feast days of English (or British) saints, however. (2) Cuthbert, Alban,/Ethelthryth, Swithun, Oswald of Northumbria, and Edmund form only a meagre company) AElfric's limited selection is also conservative. His main source for four of these--Cuthbert, Alban, AEthelthryth, and Oswald--is Bede, a point AElfric stresses. (4) The Benedictine Reformers had promoted a reverence for Bede and the 'golden age' of Northumbrian monasticism, making AElfric's decision to produce ...






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