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The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristic heroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the majorcourse of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed inlate Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece for reading the dates of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for which it serves as a kind of prologue in the manuscript. The clearlydomestic perspective of the poem, which fits in the manuscript context, is also noteworthy, while the poem also reveals various interesting characteristics in its grammar, vocabulary and prosody. This is the first full modern edition of the poem, and is accompanied by a facing translation. The introduction provides an extensive discussion of matter, content, style, and context, while the commentary offers further information. The volume also includes the texts and translations of a number of analogous works. Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Komazawa University, Tokyo.

Christian martyrs --- Martyrologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Martyrs --- Martyrdom --- Christianity --- Martyrologium Saxonice --- Martyrology, Old English --- Old English Martyrology --- Altenglische Martyrologium --- Menologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Old English metrical calendar --- Calendrier anglo-saxon --- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. --- Anglo-Saxon England. --- Anglo-Saxon liturgy. --- Anglo-Saxon poetry. --- Christian festivals. --- Christian worship. --- Domestic perspective. --- English philology. --- Grammar. --- Kazutomo Karasawa. --- Liturgical year. --- Menologium. --- Old English Metrical Calendar. --- Prosody. --- Solar/natural year. --- Vocabulary. --- cultural history. --- liturgical practices. --- liturgical traditions. --- liturgical year. --- manuscript studies. --- medieval Christianity. --- medieval liturgy. --- religious texts.

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The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.--

Christian literature, English (Old) --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- English literature --- Women and literature --- Christian hagiography --- Christian women saints in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Martyrologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Christian literature, English (Old) - History and criticism. --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism. --- English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism. --- Women and literature - England - History - To 1500. --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500. --- Anglo-Saxons --- Women saints in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Martyrologium Saxonice --- Martyrology, Old English --- Old English Martyrology --- Altenglische Martyrologium --- Menologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Old English metrical calendar --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra