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Drawn from Aelfric’s Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As well as the Old English original texts, it provides the reader with modern English parallel-text translations.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The Latin Legends of the Virgin Spouses
  • Treatments of the Latin Legends by Anglo-Saxon Authors other than Aelfric
  • Aelfric's Treatment of the Latin Legends in the Lives of Saints
  • The Language of the Old English Texts
  • Aelfric's Latin Sources
  • Notes to the Introduction
  • Select Bibliography
  • Old English Texts and Translations
  • Editorial Procedure
  • I. Julian and Basilissa
  • II. Cecilia and Valerian
  • III. Chrysanthus and Daria
  • Commentary
  • Latin Texts and Translations
  • Editorial Procedure
  • I. Julian and Basilissa
  • II. Cecilia and Valerian
  • III. Chrysanthus and Daria
  • Commentary
  • Glossary

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/7/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780859897808, 978-0859897808
      ISBN10: 085989780X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawn from Aelfric’s Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As well as the Old English original texts, it provides the reader with modern English parallel-text translations.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • List of Abbreviations
      • Introduction
      • The Latin Legends of the Virgin Spouses
      • Treatments of the Latin Legends by Anglo-Saxon Authors other than Aelfric
      • Aelfric's Treatment of the Latin Legends in the Lives of Saints
      • The Language of the Old English Texts
      • Aelfric's Latin Sources
      • Notes to the Introduction
      • Select Bibliography
      • Old English Texts and Translations
      • Editorial Procedure
      • I. Julian and Basilissa
      • II. Cecilia and Valerian
      • III. Chrysanthus and Daria
      • Commentary
      • Latin Texts and Translations
      • Editorial Procedure
      • I. Julian and Basilissa
      • II. Cecilia and Valerian
      • III. Chrysanthus and Daria
      • Commentary
      • Glossary

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