Clement of Alexandria

Entry on works by Clement of Alexandri

Vernacular Treatments of the Ten Commandments in Anglo-Saxon England

The collection opens with Gneuss\u27s Rawlinson Center lecture, delivered just a few months prior to the Handlist\u27s publication. The lecture is followed by essays by Donald Scragg and Thomas N. Hall that examine the scribes, contents, circumstances of production, and intended uses of selected manuscripts from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Four essays follow, by Kees Dekker, Rebecca Brackmann, Aaron J Kleist, and Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. investigating the fates of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts at the hands of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquaries. The resulting collection addresses the concerns of Anglo-Saxon manuscript studies today, which have been given new energy by the publication of the Handlist

Matthew Parker, Old English, and the Defense of Priestly Marriage

he collection opens with Gneuss\u27s Rawlinson Center lecture, delivered just a few months prior to the Handlist\u27s publication. The lecture is followed by essays by Donald Scragg and Thomas N. Hall that examine the scribes, contents, circumstances of production, and intended uses of selected manuscripts from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Four essays follow, by Kees Dekker, Rebecca Brackmann, Aaron J Kleist, and Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. investigating the fates of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts at the hands of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquaries. The resulting collection addresses the concerns of Anglo-Saxon manuscript studies today, which have been given new energy by the publication of the Handlist

Assembling Ælfric: Reconstructing the Rationale Behind Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Compilations

This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England

Striving with grace : views of free will in Anglo-Saxon England

The question of whether or not our decisions and efforts make a difference in an uncertain and uncontrollable world had enormous significance for writers in Anglo-Saxon England. Striving with Grace looks at seven authors who wrote either in Latin or Old English, and the ways in which they sought to resolve this fundamental question. For Anglo-Saxon England, as for so much of the medieval West, the problem of individual will was complicated by a widespread theistic tradition that influenced writers, thinkers, and their hypotheses. Aaron J Kleist examines the many factors that produced strikingly different, though often complementary, explanations of free will in early England. Having first established the perspectives of Augustine, he considers two Church Fathers who rivalled Augustine\u27s impact on early England, Gregory the Great and the Venerable Bede, and reconstructs their influence on later English writers. He goes on to examine Alfred the Great\u27s Old English Boethius and Lantfred of Winchester\u27s Carmen de libero arbitrio, and the debt that both texts owe to Boethius\u27 classic De consolatione Philosophiae. Finally, Kleist discusses Wulfstan the Homilist and Ælfric of Eynsham, two seminal writers of late Anglo-Saxon England. Striving with Grace shows that all of these authors, despite striking differences in their sources and logic, underscore humanity\u27s need for grace even as they labour to affirm the legitimacy of human effort.https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1009/thumbnail.jp

Old English homily : precedent, practice, and appropriation

The quarter-century that has passed since Paul Szarmach\u27s and Bernard Huppé\u27s groundbreaking The Old English Homily and its Backgrounds (1978) has seen major changes in the field of Anglo-Saxon homiletics. Primary materials have become accessible to scholars in unprecedented levels, whether digitally or through new critical editions, and these have generated in turn a flood of secondary scholarship. The articles in this volume showcase and build on these developments. The first five essays consider various contexts of and influences on Anglo-Saxon homilies: patristic and early medieval Latin sources, continental homiliaries and preaching practices, traditions of Old Testament interpretation and adaptation, and the liturgical setting of preaching texts. Six studies then turn to the sermons themselves, examining style and rhetoric in the Vercelli homilies, the codicology of the Blickling Book, sanctorale and temporale in the works of Ælfric, and the challenges posed by Wulfstan\u27s self-referential corpus. Finally, the last entries take us past the Conquest to discuss the re-use of homiletic material in England and its environs from the eleventh to eighteenth century. Together, these articles offer medieval scholars a new Old English Homily, one that serves both as an introduction to key figures and issues in the field and as a model of studies for the next quarter-century. Includes chapter.: Anglo-Saxon Homiliaries in Tudor and Stuart England pp. 445-492https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1234/thumbnail.jp

The Ælfric of Eynsham Project: An Introduction

This project will provide printed and electronic editions of key works by the Anglo-Saxon monk Ælfric of Eynsham that remain unpublished, partially published, or scattered throughout out-of-print texts, making them accessible to non-specialists as well as to scholars, and promoting a heightened appreciation for this pivotal figure of early English literature

Influence of Bede’s De temporum ratione on Ælfric’s Understanding of Time

These thirty-two papers from the 7th International Medieval Congress held in Leeds in 2000, wrestle with the complex and difficult subject of time and eternity in the medieval period. They reflect different scholarly approaches to the subject and reveal a variety of medieval concepts of time and its function. The papers are arranged according to seven themes: Time, its computation and the use of calendars; Jewish concepts of time and redemption; Christian philosophies of eternity and time; Monastic and clerical conceptions; Literary representations; Time and art; The end of the world