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With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse--Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlist The Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.

Old Norse prose literature --- Christian saints --- Christian saints in literature --- Prose vieux norroise --- Saints chrétiens --- Saints chrétiens dans la littérature --- Bibliography --- Legends --- Early works to 1800 --- Bibliography. --- Bibliographie --- Légendes --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Saints chrétiens --- Saints chrétiens dans la littérature --- Légendes --- Icelandic and Old Norse prose literature --- Saints --- Canonization --- Old Norse literature --- Old Norse prose literature - Bibliography --- Christian saints - Legends - Early works to 1800 - Bibliography --- Christian saints in literature - Bibliography --- Hagiographie norroise

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The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' Lives in the vernacular. Of these Lives, Ælfric is the most important author, and his saints' Lives have never previously been explored in their contemporary setting. In this study, Gretsch analyses Ælfric's Lives of five important saints in the light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England. This gives the reader fascinating glimpses of 'Ælfric 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.

Christian hagiography --- Christian saints --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- History --- Cult --- Histoire --- Culte --- Aelfric, --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- Saints --- Canonization --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Elfrike, --- Älfrik, --- Aelfrik, --- Alfric, --- Alfricus, --- Elfric, --- Aelfricus, --- Aelfric --- To 1500 --- England --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Christian saints - Cult - England - History - To 1500 --- Anglo-Saxons --- Culte des saints --- Angleterre --- Aelfric, - Abbot of Eynsham

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This volume presents a series of case studies concerning the use and reuse of Egyptian hagiography in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first three contributions analyze the use of Egyptian hagiography in the context of late antique Egypt and, in particular, examine to what extent these texts can be used as historical sources for the reconstruction of traditional (pagan) religion. The other contributions illustrate the different contexts in which Egyptian hagiography was reused in the medieval West. The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West.

Christian hagiography. --- Christianity and other religions --- Christian saints --- Desert Fathers. --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Christianisme --- Saints chrétiens --- Pères du désert --- Egyptian. --- Relations --- Religion égyptienne --- Christian hagiography --- Desert Fathers --- Egyptian --- Christian saints. --- Christianity. --- Egyptians --- Hagiografi. --- Interfaith relations. --- RELIGION --- Religion. --- Christian Theology --- Angelology & Demonology. --- Egypt. --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- Pères du désert --- Religion égyptienne --- Saints --- Canonization --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Fathers of the church --- Christianity and other religions - Egyptian --- Christian saints - Egypt --- Egypte --- Monachisme égyptien --- Patrum vitae

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The Legend of St Brendan is a study of two accounts of a voyage undertaken by Brendan, a sixth-century Irish saint. The immense popularity of the Latin version encouraged many vernacular translations, including a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman reworking of the narrative which excises much of the devotional material seen in the ninth-century Navigatio Sancti Brendani abbatis and changes the emphasis, leaving a recognisably secular narrative. The vernacular version focuses on marvellous imagery and the trials and tribulations of a long sea-voyage. Together the two versions demonstrate a movement away from hagiography towards adventure. Studies of the two versions rarely discuss the elements of the fantastic. Following a summary of authorship, audiences and sources, this comparative study adopts a structural approach to the two versions of the Brendan narrative. It considers what the fantastic imagery achieves and addresses issues raised with respect to theological parallels.

Christian saints --- Epic literature --- Saints chrétiens --- Littérature épique --- Legends --- History and criticism --- Légendes --- Histoire et critique --- Brendan, --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani --- Translations. --- America --- Amérique --- Discovery and exploration --- Irish --- Découverte et exploration irlandaises --- Translations --- Reseskildringar --- Helgonlegender. --- Saints --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani. --- Voyage de saint Brendan. --- Saints chrétiens --- Littérature épique --- Légendes --- Amérique --- Découverte et exploration irlandaises --- Brandaan, --- Brandan, --- Brandão, --- Legende des Heiligen Brandan --- Legende des Heiligen Brendan --- Navigatio S. Brendani --- Navigatio Brendani --- Voyage of St. Brendan --- Voyage of Brendan --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis --- Navegação de S. Brandão --- Brandanus ab. Clonfertensis --- Brendan, - Saint, the Voyager, - ca. 483-577

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Slocum analyzes the image of Thomas Becket as presented in the liturgies composed in his honour, and examines these within the context of the political and social history of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.

235.3 THOMAS BECKET --- 27 <420> "11" --- Hagiografie--THOMAS BECKET --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"11" --- Saints chretiens --- Thomas, --- Cult --- History --- Catholic Church --- Eglise catholique --- Liturgy --- Liturgie --- Textes --- Becket, Thomas à, --- Becket, Thomas, --- Thomas --- Sciences naturelles --- Natural history --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Guides. --- Guidebooks. --- Christian saints --- Ontario --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Thomas Cantuariensis --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Saints chretiens - Angleterre - Biographies --- Thomas ep. Cantuariensis m. --- Thomas, - a Becket, Saint, - 1118?-1170 - Cult - History - Sources --- Thomas, - Becket, saint, - 1118?-1170 - Chants et musique --- Liturgies. --- Cults. --- Alternative religious movements --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Liturgics --- Litúrgies --- lemac --- Thomas, - a Becket, Saint, - 1118?-1170 --- Thomas, - Becket, saint, - 1118?-1170 --- Thomas (Becket) --- Thomas Becket, --- Cult. --- Catholic Church. --- Église catholique --- England --- England. --- Katolicheskai͡a t͡serkovʹ --- Katolyt͡sʹka t͡serkva --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Kingdom of England --- Engländer --- Großbritannien --- -1707