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The Medieval Church · c. 996–1002
Lives of Saints
Ælfric of Eynsham · c. 955–c. 1010
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What it is
Saints' lives in rhythmical alliterative prose for the feasts kept by monks, including English saints alongside the martyrs of the early church.
Why it lasted
A prose style of its own invention, halfway between verse and speech, and the fullest vernacular saints' collection of the period.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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