"Which Anglo-Saxon Abbot wrote ""Catholic Homilies"" and ""Lives of the Saints""?"
"Aelfric Society The Aelfric Society (Ælfric Society) was a text publication society founded in London (England), and active from 1842 to 1856, which published the Homilies of Ælfric of Eynsham (perhaps Archbishop of Canterbury, during 996–1006) and other works by Anglo-Saxon writers. It is also known as ""Aelfric Society Publications"". The Ælfric Society was named in honor of Ælfric of Eynsham, a Benedictine monk who wrote a Saxon grammar and dictionary (glossary). He had also translated a number of homilies and the Heptateuch into Old English. For the society, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Benjamin Thorpe (1782–1870) edited the homilies, during 1844–1846."
"The Lives of the Saints The Lives of the Saints from the Old and New Testaments () is a hagiography by Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga (written in 1577, first published in 1579). It became one of the most popular Polish books ever and a classic of Polish literature. It is one of two most famous works by Skarga, the other being ""Sejm Sermons"". The book was published in two volumes of over a thousand pages total. Skarga, inspired by some other historiographical works (ex. it is estimated he based at least a four fifth of his work on the translation"
"in a form that allowed them the rhetorical tools necessary to present their faith through the example of the saints' lives. Of all the English hagiographers no one was more prolific nor so aware of the importance of the genre as Abbot Ælfric of Eynsham. His work ""Lives of the Saints"" contains set of sermons on saints' days, formerly observed by the English Church. The text comprises two prefaces, one in Latin and one in Old English, and 39 lives beginning on December 25 with the nativity of Christ and ending with three texts to which no saints' days are"
"in the second series had been written in a kind of rhythmical, alliterative prose, and in the ""Lives of the Saints"" the practice is so regular that most of them are arranged as verse by their editor W. W. Skeat. Appended to the ""Lives of the Saints"" there are two homilies, ""On False Gods"" and ""The Twelve Abuses"". The first one shows how the Church was still fighting against the ancient religion of Britain, but also against the religion of the Danish invaders. Ælfric was asked by Æthelweard to translate the book of Genesis up to the story of Abraham"
"Vita Sancti Cuthberti The Vita Sancti Cuthberti (English: ""Life of Saint Cuthbert"") is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria. It is probably the earliest extant saint's life from Anglo-Saxon England, and is an account of the life and miracles of Cuthbert (died 687), a Bernician hermit-monk who became bishop of Lindisfarne. Surviving in eight manuscripts from Continental Europe, it was not as well read in the Middle Ages as the prose version by Bede. It was however Bede's main source for his two dedicated works on Cuthbert, the ""Metrical Life"" and the ""Prose Life"". It was completed soon after"
"It is one of two most famous works by Skarga, the other being ""Kazania sejmowe"" (""Sejm Sermons""). The Lives of the Saints The Lives of the Saints from the Old and New Testaments () is a hagiography by Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga (written in 1577, first published in 1579). It became one of the most popular Polish books ever and a classic of Polish literature. It is one of two most famous works by Skarga, the other being ""Sejm Sermons"". The book was published in two volumes of over a thousand pages total. Skarga, inspired by some other historiographical works"
"Bede's ""Life of St Chad""—which could allow these hagiographers to have had a wider audience. The ""Life of Saint Guthlac"" and Bede's ""Life of St Cuthbert"" for instance both provide a description of how to be a good monk or hermit. There are other stories within the hagiographies that would have had greater relevance to layfolk, in particular members of the royalty and nobility. In the tenth century, Anglo-Saxon hagiography began to display an increasing preoccupation with saintly authority and on the close relationship between saints and kings. Of the 106 Old English hagiographical works, 66 of them (approximately two-thirds)"
"volume of Saints' Lives in Anglo-Norman verse (known as the ""Campsey Manuscript""). This was used for mealtime readings in the Campsey refectory. The main part of the book contains ""Lives"" of Thomas Becket (by Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence), Edward the Confessor, Archbishop Edmund Rich, St Etheldreda, St Osyth, St Faith, St Modwenna, Richard de Wych and the Life of St Catherine by Clemence of Barking. Appended to this are ""Lives"" of St Elizabeth of Hungary, St Paphnutius and St Paul the Hermit, attributed to Nicholas Bozon. This stimulating collection, with several items of East Anglian and feminine interest, was compiled between"
"The Books of Homilies The Books of Homilies (1547, 1562, and 1571) are two books of thirty-three sermons developing the reformed doctrines of the Church of England in greater depth and detail than in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. The title of the collection is Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to Be Read in Churches. During the reign of Edward VI and later during the reign of Elizabeth I, Thomas Cranmer and other English reformers saw the need for local to be taught Christian theology and practice. Before the English Reformation, the liturgy was conducted entirely in Latin, to which"
"James Ambrose Dominic Aylward James Ambrose Dominic Aylward OP was an English Catholic theologian and poet. Born at Leeds, Yorkshire, on 4 April 1813, Aylward was educated at the Dominican priory of Hinckley, entered the Order of St Dominic, was ordained priest in 1836, became Provincial in 1850, first Prior of Woodchester in 1854, and provincial a second time in 1866. He composed several pious manuals for the use of his community and ""A Novena for the Holy Season of Advent"" gathered from the prophecies, anthems, etc., of the Roman Missal and Breviary (Derby, 1849). He re-edited a ""Life of"
"William of Ramsey William of Ramsey (fl. 1219) was a 13th-century English Benedictine monk of Croyland Abbey (sometimes written Crowland), born at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. He wrote lives of saints and others in Latin verse, and probably therefore derived his materials from prose then in existence. He can be dated by the content and dedications of his works. In his life of Earl Waltheof (printed in Francisque Michel's Chroniques Anglo-Normandes) events are brought down to 1219. His Life of St. Guthlac is dedicated to Abbot Longchamp, of Croyland, abbot from 1191 to 1236 and that of Birinus is dedicated to Peter"
"eschatological themes and to glorify the ascetic way of life. The homilies represent part of the anonymous tradition of religious prose writing in Anglo Saxon England"". In his book ""The Vercelli Homilies"", Donald Scragg claims that because of the poetry, the Vercelli Book ""is in no sense a homiliary"". He argues that most of the homilies in the Vercelli Book are sermons with general themes, while two of the homilies describe lives of the saints (XVII and XXIII). The manuscript contains two homilies (I and VI) that are primarily narrative pieces and lack the typical homiletic structure. The arrangement of"
"John O'Hanlon (writer) The Very Reverend John Canon O'Hanlon MRIA (30 April 1821 – 15 May 1905) was an Irish Catholic priest, scholar and writer who also published poetry and illustrations, and involved himself in Irish politics. He is best known as a folklorist and a hagiographer, and in particular for his comprehensive ""Lives of the Irish Saints"". O'Hanlon was born in Stradbally, Laois. His parents were Edward and Honor Hanlon. He attended the Preston School in Ballyroan and then entered Carlow College to study for the priesthood. Before he completed his studies, however, he emigrated in 1842 with members"
"of Saint Chad. There are four additional lives in the earliest manuscript of the ""Lives of Saints"", the Julius manuscript: Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, Saint Mary of Egypt, Saint Eustace and Saint Euphrosyne. There are six major manuscripts of the Wessex Gospels, dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. The most popular, ""Old English Gospel of Nicodemus"", is treated in one manuscript as though it were a 5th gospel; other apocryphal gospels in translation include the ""Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew"", ""Vindicta salvatoris"", ""Vision of Saint Paul"" and the ""Apocalypse of Thomas"". The ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" was probably started in the time of"
"""Irish Builder"" during the 1880s, and collected the works of Laois patriot, balladeer and mythologist John Keegan, while the best known of his own poems is the ""Land of Leix"". O'Hanlon's best-known work remains his hagiography, in particular his ""Lives of the Irish Saints"", which organizes its chronicles by feast day, from January 1 to December 31. O'Hanlon issued a prospectus for a subscription work on the lives of Irish saints in 1875, and published 9 volumes until he died in 1905, when he was working on a tenth, dealing with 3,500 saints across more than six thousand octavo pages."
"Vita Sancti Niniani The Vita Sancti Niniani (""Life of Saint Ninian"") or simply Vita Niniani (""Life of Ninian"") is a Latin language Christian hagiography written in northern England in the mid-12th century. Using two earlier Anglo-Latin sources, it was written by Ailred of Rievaulx seemingly at the request of a Bishop of Galloway. It is loosely based on the career of the early British churchman Uinniau or Finnian, whose name through textual misreadings was rendered ""Ninian"" by high medieval English and Anglo-Norman writers, subsequently producing a distinct cult. Saint Ninian was thus an ""unhistorical doppelganger"" of someone else. The ""Vita"""
"Jocelyn of Furness Jocelyn of Furness (fl. 1175-1214) was an English Cistercian hagiographer, known for his Lives of Saint Waltheof, Saint Patrick, Saint Kentigern and Saint Helena of Constantinople. He was a monk of Furness Abbey (now in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria), and translated or adapted Celtic hagiographical material for Anglo-Norman readers. He wrote for Jocelyn, Bishop of Glasgow, a Life of Kentigern, and for John de Courcy and Thomas (Tommaltach), Archbishop of Armagh a Life of St Patrick. His Life of Waltheof was written to promote the cult of a former abbot of Melrose. The Life of St Helena was probably"
"The Lives of the Saints (fiction) ""The Lives of the Saints"" is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Edward Berridge published by University of Queensland Press (UQP) in 1995. Karen Brooks calls the book an example of grunge lit, an Australian literary genre from the 1990s. In a 1998 article in the ""Australian Literary Studies"" journal, Karen Brooks called Berridge a grunge lit author and stated that along with Clare Mendes' ""Drift Street"" and Andrew McGahan's ""Praise"", Berridge's book of stories ""...explore[s] the psychosocial and psychosexual limitations of young sub/urban characters in relation to the imaginary and socially"
"""Institutes of Polity"" and ""Canons of Edgar"". One of the earliest Old English texts in prose is the ""Martyrology"", information about saints and martyrs according to their anniversaries and feasts in the church calendar. It has survived in six fragments. It is believed to date from the 9th century by an anonymous Mercian author. The oldest collections of church sermons is the ""Blickling homilies"", found in a 10th-century manuscript. There are a number of saint's lives prose works; beyond those written by Ælfric are the prose life of Saint Guthlac (Vercelli Book), the life of Saint Margaret and the life"
"In addition to this ""magnum opus"" O'Hanlon published many works on individual saints, although he mostly re-used these articles and pamphlets in his ""Lives"", often verbatim. In a similar manner, his work on the churches of Laois provided material for the ""Lives"". As a work of hagiography, the ""Lives of the Irish Saints"" has been surpassed by modern scholarship, but it remains a treasure trove of local information and tradition. O'Hanlon did not limit himself to the lives of saints, and his interests extended to secular and more contemporary figures. He issued new editions of works by William Molyneux (""The"
"impact of the Irish ""Life of St Columba"" on the anonymously authored Anglo-Saxon ""Life of St Cuthbert"". Gretsch stated that, with the exception of the apostles, it was Gregory the Great who ""had enjoyed the largest and most universal veneration in Anglo-Saxon England"". By the time that Bede and Aldhelm were writing their texts, at least two altars and one chapel had been dedicated to Gregory in England. Anglo-Saxon England produced more royal saints than neighbouring regions of Northwestern Europe. The lives of some of these saints is attested from sources written in the Anglo-Saxon period, although others only survive"
"books of devotion and sermons, and many hymns, noted for poetic beauty. He died at Brighton. Henry Augustus Rawes Henry Augustus Rawes (11 December 1826 – 24 April 1885) was a Catholic hymn writer and preacher. Born at Easington, near Durham, England, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered the Anglican ministry in 1853. Converted to Catholicism in 1856. One of the original members of the ""Oblates of Saint Charles"". Ordained a priest in 1857. He was Superior of the ""Oblate"" congregation from 1880 until his death. Founded the ""Society of Servants of the Holy Ghost"". Translated the"
"the ""Vita Sancti Guthlaci"" (""Life of Saint Guthlac""), the ""Vita Sancti Dunstani"" (""Life of Saint Dunstan"") and the ""Vita Sancti Filiberti"" (""Life of Saint Filibert"", abbot of Jumièges), and originally contained another hagiography of a Jumièges abbot, that of Aichard of Jumièges. Three British Museum manuscript volumes, Harleian MS 2800–2802, contain a very large legendary from Arnstein Abbey in the diocese of Trier (now Limburg), and the Anonymous Life is found on Harleian MS 2800 folios 248 to 251b. The same legendary is in three 13th-century Brussels volumes, Royal Library MSS 98–100, 206, and 207–208. The Anonymous Life is present"
"creation, the ""Anno Mundi"". His other historical works included lives of the abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, as well as verse and prose lives of Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, an adaptation of Paulinus of Nola's ""Life of St Felix"", and a translation of the Greek ""Passion of St Anastasius"". He also created a listing of saints, the ""Martyrology"". In his own time, Bede was as well known for his biblical commentaries and exegetical, as well as other theological, works. The majority of his writings were of this type, and covered the Old Testament and the New Testament. Most survived the"
"de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, 1205–1238. He has sometimes been incorrectly identified with William of Crowland, Abbot of Ramsey and later of Cluny, who died in 1179. His known works include the following: William of Ramsey William of Ramsey (fl. 1219) was a 13th-century English Benedictine monk of Croyland Abbey (sometimes written Crowland), born at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. He wrote lives of saints and others in Latin verse, and probably therefore derived his materials from prose then in existence. He can be dated by the content and dedications of his works. In his life of Earl Waltheof (printed in Francisque Michel's"
"to be taught Anglican theology and practice. Since many priests and deacons were still uneducated, semi-literate and tending toward Roman Catholicism in their teachings and activities, it was decided to create a series of homilies to be read out during the church service by the local Priest. The ""First book of Homilies"" contained twelve sermons and was written mainly by Cranmer. They focused strongly upon the character of God and Justification by Faith and were fully published by 1547. The ""Second book of Homilies"" contained twenty-one sermons and was written mainly by Bishop John Jewel, and were fully published by"
"Hildelith Hildelith of Barking, also known as Hildilid or Hildelitha, was an 8th-century Christian saint, from Anglo-Saxon England but of foreign origin. Very little is known of her life; however, she is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript, and the ""Life of St Hildelith"" written in 1087 by the Medieval Benedictine hagiographical writer Goscelin. She was abbess of the nunnery at Barking in England. She was also the ""superior"" to Cwenburh of Wimborne prior to that saint's founding of Wimborne Abbey. Earconwald is said to have engaged Hildelith to instruct his sister Æthelburh, abbess of"
"situation) and ""diver[t]... flows"" of these ""creeks"", thus claiming their rough settings' ""liminality"" (being in a border situation or transitional setting) and their own ""abjection"" (having ""abject bodies"" with health problems, disease, etc.) as ""sites of symbolic empowerment and agency"". Professor and fiction author Andrew McCann compared ""The Lives of the Saints"" to Christos Tsiolkas' ""Loaded"", stating that in Berridge's book, there is ""...none of [Loaded's] structural economy of the anti-epiphany to impose formal unity."" The Lives of the Saints (fiction) ""The Lives of the Saints"" is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Edward Berridge published by University"
"from later authors, such as Bede and the anonymous author of the ""Life of St Wilfrid"", who wrote in Latin rather than in Old English. These writers were not interested in providing a full portrait of the Anglo-Saxons' pre-Christian belief systems, and thus our textual portrayal of these religious beliefs is fragmentary and incidental. Also perhaps useful are the writings of those Christian Anglo-Saxon missionaries who were active in converting the pagan societies of continental Europe, namely Willibrord and Boniface, as well as the writings of the 1st century AD Roman writer Tacitus, who commented upon the pagan religions of"
"from Durham Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds Abbey, and St Albans. The St Albans copies, however, are only dated to the 15th-century, which undercuts the idea that John might have been a monk at that abbey. The ""Historia"" also survives in shortened versions. Besides the ""Historia"", he also authored a ""Sanctilogium"", or ""Sanctilogium Angliae Walliae Scotiae et Hiberniae"", which gave the lives of 156 English saints. The ""Sanctilogium"" survives in a single manuscript, now in the British Library, where it is Cotton Library MS Tiberius E.i. He also wrote a ""Martyrologium"", which survives in some extracts that are appended to one"
"the Archbishop of Rouen, canonized him in 1153. Thenceforth a decree of Pope Alexander III in 1170 reserved the prerogative of canonization to the Pope, in so far as the Latin Church was concerned. One source claims that ""there are over 10,000 named saints and beatified people from history, the Roman Martyrology and Orthodox sources, but no definitive head count"". Alban Butler published ""Lives of the Saints"" in 1756, including a total of 1,486 saints. The latest revision of this book, edited by the Jesuit Herbert Thurston and the British author Donald Attwater, contains the lives of 2,565 saints. Monsignor"
"Clemence of Barking Clemence of Barking (fl. 1163-1200) was a 12th-century Benedictine nun and Anglo-Norman poet-translator of Barking Abbey. She is noted for writing a translation of the biography, the ""Life of Saint Catherine"". Clemence's hagiography of Saint Catherine of Alexandria is widely regarded as, what would be considered today, a feminist text. Clemence was a nun of Barking Abbey during the 12th century. Barking Abbey was a royal monastery located in the Essex Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Essex, England. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Barking Abbey was originally established in the seventh century around 666 AD and followed"
"Leopold Liebermann was regent, and was ordained 22 August 1818 by Bishop Joseph Ludwig Colmar. Hereupon he taught the humanities at the seminary (1818–20), was pastor at Dudenhofen (1820–22), canon at the Speyer Cathedral (1822–37), and dean of the cathedral (1837–42). During this time he was said to have displayed remarkable literary activity. In conjunction with Andreas Rass, afterwards Bishop of Strasbourg, he revised, enlarged, and translated several apologetic, dogmatic, homiletic, and hagiographic works, the best known of which are an enlarged German edition of Butler's ""Lives of the Saints"" (24 vols., Mainz, 1821–27), translations from the French of Carron,"