Description
Book SynopsisDrawn 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
