The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict: With Related Old English Texts - Couverture souple

Æthelwold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0879072644 ISBN 13 : 9780879072643

Editeur : Liturgical Press, 2017

Synopsis

St. AEthelwold (904/9 -984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester, made the first translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict into English (or, indeed, into any vernacular language) as part of the tenth-century English Benedictine Reform. This movement dramatically affected the trajectory of religious life in early medieval England and influenced the ways in which secular power was conceived and wielded in the kingdom. AEthelwold's translation into Old English reworks Benedict's Latin text through numerous silent additions, omissions, and instances of explanatory material, revealing an Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical and political reformer intent on making this foundational Latin text more readily accessible to the new monks and nuns of the Reform and to the laity. Presented with related texts composed in Old English, this volume makes AEthelwold's transformation of Benedict's Rule available in Modern English translation for the first time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jacob Riyeff teaches in the English department at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Specializing in Old English poetry and medieval monastic culture, he also translates Old English, Middle English, and French poetry and writes original verse. Jacob is a Benedictine oblate of Osage Deanery in Sand Springs, Oklahoma.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liturgical Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879072644
• ISBN 13: 9780879072643
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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