Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses
Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses (Medieval Studies) (UEP - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) Robert K. Upchurch (Editor)
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
ISBN: 085989780X
DDC: 808
Edition: Paperback; 2007-05-15
Summary:
Drawn from Ælfric's Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an
edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and
Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As well
as the Old English original texts, it provides the reader with modern
English parallel-text translations. As a useful comparison, their
closest Latin source texts are also reproduced - again with English
parallel-text translations. As a leading churchman writing at the
time of the Viking raids at the end of the first millennium, Ælfric
wrote his Lives to bolster the faith of English Christians. These
three stories of couples who marry but do not consummate their unions
point to the ideal of marital celibacy in Ælfric's programme of
pastoral care. Taken together, the group provides an opportunity to
emphasise different but related points about the literal and
figurative types of chastity and purity appropriate to the laity.
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