Gretsch, Mechthild. <br/><br/>
Aelfric and the cult of saints in late Anglo-Saxon England / 
Mechthild Gretsch. 
 - Cambridge, UK ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2005. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages). 
 - Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ;  34 .
 - Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ;  34. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-257) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Aelfric's sanctorale and the Benedictional of Aethelwold -- Gregory : the apostle of the English -- Cuthbert : from Northumbrian saint to saint of all England -- Benedict : father of monks--and what else? -- Swithun and Aethelthryth : two saints 'of our days'. 
<br/><br/> "In this study, Gretsch analyses Aelfric's Lives of five important saints in the light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England, namely Gregory, the Roman pope; Benedict, the founder of western Monasticism; Cuthbert, the Northumbrian saint; Swithun of Winchester; and Aethelthryth of Ely. This analysis gives the reader glimpses of 'Aelfric at work': he adapts the cults and rewrites the received Latin hagiography of the five saints, with the result that each of their English Lives conveys a distinct message to the contemporary political elite and to a lay audience at large."--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0511140843 9780511140846 0511140312 9780511140310 0511139543 9780511139543 9780511483349 0511483341 9780511140075 051114007X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham. <br/>Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham. <br/>Aelfric (Grammaticus). Passiones sanctorum. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>To 1500 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian hagiography--History--To 1500.<br/>Christian saints--Cult--History--England--To 1500.<br/>Aelfric.<br/>RELIGION--Christian Theology--Angelology & Demonology.<br/>Christian hagiography.<br/>Christian saints--Cult.<br/>Heiligenverering.<br/>Heiligenverehrung.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>England.<br/>England.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BX4659.G7  / G74 2005eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>235/.2/094209021