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Amicitia in old English letters: Augustine's ideas of "friendship" and their reception in Eangyth's letter to Boniface
Main themes under discussions of the Boniface's correspondences are the
sources for his writings and the motif of "friendship". Although these aspects
have often been examined in conjunction with patristic writings, nevertheless
a concrete comparison between the patristic sources and the letters to and from
Boniface has not been attempted. In this article, on the basis of Augustine's
Confessiones and Eangyth's letter to Boniface, I would like to demonstrate that
Anglo-Saxon writers adopted not only motifs and themes shown in Augustine's
Confessiones but also his theories on friendship in particular, and that he can
therefore be valued as the main source of Anglo-Saxon letter-writing in
general