Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses

Drawn from lfric's Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As well as the Old English original texts, it provides the reader with modern English parallel-text translations. As a useful comparison, their closest Latin source texts are also reproduced - again with English parallel-text translations. As a leading churchman writing at the time of the Viking raids at the end of the first millennium, lfric wrote his Lives to bolster the faith of English Christians.Upchurch, Robert K. is the author of 'Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses ' with ISBN 9780859897808 and ISBN 085989780X.