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The Historical Works: Volume 56

The Historical Works: Volume 56 - Paperback

by Aelred of Rievaulx
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Availability:In StockContributor:Aelred of Rievaulx, Marsha L. Dutton, Jane Patricia FreelandSeries:Cistercian FathersTheme:Cultural Region/British, Religious Orientation/Catholic, Religious Orientation/Christian, Theometrics/CatholicPublish date:8/1/2005Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cistercian PublishingISBN-13:9780879072889ISBN-10:0879072881UPC:9780879072889Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Religious, Christianity, EuropeBook Topic:History, Great BritainSize:8.54 x 6.64 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.368Product ID:SC9J5PMJGB

Aelred of Rievaulx was an heir of Saxons living under Norman rule, a native speaker of English daily speaking French and Latin, a descendant of generations of married priests in an age when priests were forbidden to wed, an English monk in a French order, an abbot bred to service in the church but trained for service in the court. His sermons and treatises reflect Aelred the monk, the novice-master, and abbot. His historical works 'concerned with the political world of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England ' seek to explore the past as a guide for the present and assurance of the future. Drawing on the Bible, the Fathers of the Church, classical writers like Cicero, and medieval historians such as the Venerable Bede and Symeon of Durham, Aelred insisted on the importance of history for guiding human action, declaring that the meaning of the past can only be known in the present and that only at the end can one understand the beginning.

In this volume are four of Aelred's seven historical works: Lament for David, King of the Scots (1153), The Genealogy of the Kings of the English (1153-1154), The Life of Saint Edward, King and Confessor (1162-63), and The Battle of the Standard (1153-54).

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cistercian PublishingISBN-13:9780879072889ISBN-10:0879072881UPC:9780879072889Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Religious, Christianity, EuropeBook Topic:History, Great BritainSize:8.54 x 6.64 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.368Product ID:SC9J5PMJGB
Dutton, Marsha L.: - Marsha L. Dutton is the executive editor of Cistercian Publications. Emeritus professor of English at Ohio University, she is the author of many articles and book chapters on a variety of Cistercian subjects. Dutton is also the editor of A Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) (Brill, 2017), of four volumes of Aelred's works in translation, and of "Aelred of Rievaulx" and (with Tyler Sergent) "The Cistercians" in the Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. Her sixteen presentations on Aelred for Schola Cisterciensis appear on YouTube.Dutton, Marsha L.: - Marsha L. Dutton, professor of medieval literature and director of graduate studies in English at Ohio University, is a longtime student of the works of Aelred of Rievaulx and of other twelfth-century Cistercian writers. She is associate editor of Cistercian Studies Quarterly. In addition to her many articles on Cistercian thought, Dutton has written the introduction to Vita Aelredi (CF 57) and edited Aelred's The Historical Works and Lives of the Northern Saints (CF 56, 71) as well as preparing a critical edition of Aelred's Pastoral Prayer (CF 73). She was one of the editors of Truth as Gift: Studies in Cistercian History Honoring John R. Sommerfeldt (CS 204).
Publisher: Cistercian Publishing

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