Author Description

In this major study of Anglo-Saxon religious textsOCosermons, homilies, and saintsOCO lives written in Old EnglishOCoClare A. Lees reveals how the invention of preaching transformed the early medieval church, and thus the culture of medieval England. By placing Anglo-Saxon prose within a social matrix, her work offers a new way of seeing medieval literature through the lens of culture. By concentrating on the theoretically problematic areas of history, religious belief, and aestheticsOCothe book contributes to debates about the evolving meaning of culture."