The Old English Canons of Theodore Hardback
by R.D. (Class of 1964 Chancellor's Professor of English, Indiana University) Fulk, Stefan (Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Brockport) Jurasinski
Part of the Early English Text Society Supplementary Series series
Hardback
Description
The Canons are one of the earliest handbooks of penance to appear in any West European vernacular.
The material shows the Anglo-Saxons addressing matters ranging from baptism and the ordination of priests to the conduct of the married and sexual norms.
Less a translation of the judgements attributed to Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690), than an adaptation of these materials, the work is of major importance for specialists in Old English and historians of medieval Europe generally, affording an early view of what pastoral care in early England may have looked like which is more authentic than the Latin texts on which they are based.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages, 1 black-and-white halftone
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/10/2012
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- ISBN:9780199668182
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages, 1 black-and-white halftone
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/10/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199668182
