Buch, Englisch
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
Warfare and Sanctity in the Literature of Early England
Buch, Englisch
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
ISBN: 978-1-138-71081-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Title first published in 2003. Christian authors of the Late Antique period deliberately set themselves the ambitious goal of revolutionizing the world of Latin letters, particularly concerning the questions of warfare and sanctity. Focusing on the body of early English Christian literature from the arrival of Roman Christianity in England through the period of the Crusades, the author documents the changing ethos from rejection of warfare to formal accommodation with and eventually active participation in wars considered "just" or "holy." From Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, through the works of Alcuin and Ælfric, to the South English Legendary, the author traces the subtle evolution in Christianity from the celebration of pacifist saints to the glorification of the new breed of holy warrior who not only died but fought for Christ.
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Contents: Saint Martin of Tours, Christian anti-hero: Sulpicius and the anti-heroic; Anti-war tropes in the Vita Sancti Martini; Soldier saints, holy warriors, and the prehistory of the crusades; Holy Kingship: sanctification of warfare: Holy kingship and the Ango-Saxons; Tropes in the cult of martyred warrior kings; Edwin in the Life of Gregory the Great; Edwin in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica; Oswald in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica; The cult of warrior kings; Saint Guthlac, spiritual warrior: The trope of spiritual transformation; Guthlac and spiritual transformation; Earthly warfare in Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci; Spiritual warfare in Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci; King Æthelbald's spiritual transformation; Changing perceptions of warfare and sanctity; Holiness and heroism: poetic lives of soldier saints: Hagiography and poetry; Heroic saintly women: 'Juliana' and 'Elene'; Juliana: steadfast soldier of Christ; Elene: saintly power and prestige; Andreas: warrior evangelist; The Anglo-Saxon spiritual warrior: 'Guthlac A' and 'Guthlac B'; 'Guthlac B': lordship and sainthood; 'Guthlac A': transformation of the chosen saint; Old English verse saints' lives: unity in diversity; Alcuin and Abbo: cultural cross-pollination: Cross-channel contacts and cultural cross-pollination; Alcuin's poem on the bishops, kings and saints of York; Edwin and heroic Christian kingship; Oswald, scepter and sword; Abbo of Fleury's Passio Sancti Eadmundi; Abbo's Edmund: holy martyr, holy king; Holy cross, holy sword; Ælfric: path of the holy Christian soldier: Ælfric's Lives of Saints and the trope of spiritual fulfillment; Exclusions and inclusions: Lives of Saints as composite text; Warfare and violence in Ælfric's Lives of Saints; Alban, Edmund, and Oswald: violence and Christian resistance; Judas Machabeus and the order of bellatores; Spiritual fulfillment and 'The forty soldiers, martyrs'; Ælfric's synthesis; Warfare and sanctity: record of a changing ethos: Hagiography and cultural change; Anglo-Saxon versions of the Life of Martin; Aldhelm's Martin: virgin of Christ; Alcuin's Martin: active fighter for Christ; Martin in the Old English Martyrology; The anonymous Martin homily: secular versus spiritual; Ælfric: changing conceptions of warfare and sanctity; Martin, soldier sainthood and the call to crusade; Martin in the South English Legendary 'with is swerd adrawe'; Warfare and sanctity in the later Middle Ages; Appendices; Index.
