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In this major study of Angle-Saxon religious tests sermons, homilies, and saints' lives written in Old English -- Clare A. Lees reveals how the invention of preaching transformed the early medieval church, and thus the culture of medieval England in placing Anglo-Saxon prose within a social matrix, her work offers a new way of seeing medieval literature through the lens of cultures. To show how the preaching mission of the later Anglo-Saxon church was constructed and received, Lees explores the emergence of preaching from the traditional structures of the early medieval church -- its institutional knowledge, genres, and beliefs. Understood as a powerful rhetorical, social, and epistemological process, preaching is shown to have helped define the sociocultural concerns specific to late Anglo-Saxon England. The first detailed study of traditionality in medieval culture, Tradition and Belief is also a case study of one cultural phenomenon from the past. As such -- and by concentrating on the theoretically problematic areas of history, religious belief, and aesthetics -- the book contributes to debates about the evolving meaning of culture.
| ISBN | 0816630038 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780816630035
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 290 | | Publisher | University of Minnesota Press | | Published in | Minneapolis | | Imprint | University of Minnesota Press | | Series ISSN | 19 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Medieval Cultures S. | | Publication date | 01 Nov 1999 | | Height (mm) | 225 | | Library of Congress | 99038778 | | Width (mm) | 149 | | DEWEY | 829.8 | | Spine width (mm) | 12 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate | | Pages | 232 | |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | List of Abbreviations | | | | | | Introduction: Culture and Belief | | 1 | | 1 | | Tradition, Literature, History | | 19 | | 2 | | Aesthetics and Belief: AElfric's False Gods | | 46 | | 3 | | Conventions of Time in the Old English Homiletic Corpus | | 78 | | 4 | | Didacticism and the Christian Community: The Teachers and the Taught | | 106 | | 5 | | Chastity and Charity: AElfric, Women, and the Female Saints | | 133 | | | | Conclusion | | 154 | | | | Notes | | 157 | | | | Works Cited | | 173 | | | | Index | | 189 |
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