Hagiography Beyond Tradition- King Alfred the Great, his Hagiographers and his Cult A Childhood Remembered

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9789463729611
  • 01 mei 2023
  • 308 pagina's
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1. Charts the extent to which scholarly interpretation of Alfred over the past 150 years has been inhibited by Victorian attitudes to fact and fiction, stories and dates, hagiography and chronology. 2. Subverts the dominant paradigm by letting hagiography contain history instead of, as usual, the other way around. 3. Extends to the case of a ninth century king who was not a saint the ways we now interpret interactions between female saints, their male hagiographers, and their cults, pressing to its logical conclusion the conjecture that Alfred was the author of his own cult: to put it bluntly, that he believed his own legend. This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century about Alfred’s childhood have posed interlocking disciplinary challenges to historians committed to evicting romance from history. Blending current Hagiography Studies with historical, literary, and biblical hermeneutics can help us forgo the anti-hagiographic commitments which motivated the scholars who purified the Victorian cult of Alfred by expunging his legends and salvaging his historicity. The book focusses on the typological functions of three Alfredian fables from the Old English Chronicle, the Old English Boethius, and Asser’s Vita Ælfredi, analyses the plot common to all three, critiques the psychological conjecture that Alfred’s childhood memory was their common source, and shows that synoptically they can help us see how Alfred shaped the curve of his own life’s destiny and how he engaged in the formation of his own cult to last a thousand years.

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Hoofdauteur
Tomas Mario Kalmar
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Andrew Prescott
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Amsterdam University Press

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