• Ælfric of Eynsham (Old English: Ælfrīc; Latin: Alfricus, Elphricus; c. 955 – c. 1010) was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and...
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    earlier minster. The first abbot was Ælfric of Eynsham, a prolific writer in Old English. The Domesday Book of 1086 includes a paragraph on the settlement...
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  • "a powerful person, ruler". Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 955–c. 1010), late 10th century Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer Ælfric of Abingdon (died 1005), late 10th...
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  • Ælfric Bata (fl. 1005) was a monk and a disciple of Ælfric of Eynsham at Winchester some time before 1005. The epithet Bata is unclear; the formerly accepted...
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  • Homilies of Ælfric of Eynsham (perhaps Archbishop of Canterbury, during 996–1006) and other works by Anglo-Saxon writers. It is also known as Aelfric Society...
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    under the editorship of Abbot Ælfric of Eynsham (d. c. 1010). It is the first English vernacular translation of the first six books of the Old Testament...
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  • added to by Aelfric Bata, his disciple (1912), in An Anglo-Saxon abbot, Ælfric of Eynsham, pp. 183–195. By S. H. Gem. The canons of Ælfric (1840). Edited...
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    University Press. ISBN 978-0-7185-1314-6. Ælfric of Eynsham (1881). "Of Saint Edmund" . Ælfric's Lives of Saints. London, Pub. for the Early English...
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    ealdorman of the Western Provinces in 1013. He was the founder of Cerne Abbey and Eynsham Abbey, and a patron of the leading scholar, Ælfric of Eynsham. He...
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    1093/oxfordhb/9780199252466.013.0082. Retrieved 21 April 2024. Ælfric of Eynsham. The Lives of the Saints. Retrieved 1 December 2018. Koch, John T. (2006)...
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    Hebban olla vogala (category Folklore of the Benelux)
    priory of Rochester, Kent, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 340. The manuscript contains a collection of Old English sermons by Ælfric of Eynsham. The...
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  • writer John VII of Constantinople, known as John VII Grammaticus (9th century), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Ælfric of Eynsham, known in Latin...
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    enslaved.org. Retrieved 2021-08-21. Ælfric of Eynsham (1881). "Death of St. Mary of Egypt" . Ælfric's Lives of Saints. London, Pub. for the Early English...
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  • train by Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester. The name most associated with that reform is that of Abbot Ælfric of Eynsham, Ælfric the Grammarian. Despite their...
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  • Judith (poem) (category Cultural depictions of Judith)
    other extant version is by Ælfric of Eynsham, late 10th-century Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer; his version is a homily (in prose) of the tale. Judith was first...
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  • of all four gospels into stand-alone Old English text. Seven manuscript copies survive. Its transcribing was supervised by the monk Ælfric of Eynsham...
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    wishes of the aristocracy. Liebermann's more subtle position seems to be vindicated by testimony from abbot Ælfric of Eynsham, the leading homilist of the...
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    Dionysius the Areopagite (category Doctors of the Church)
    Dionysius' Church, Market Harborough, UK Ælfric of Eynsham (1881). "Of Saint Dionysius" . Ælfric's Lives of Saints. London, Pub. for the Early English...
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    Council of Norway. "sju-sovare | SAOB". Martyrologium Romanum, editio altera, (Typis Vaticanis, 2004, p. 416 ISBN 88-209-7210-7) Ælfric of Eynsham (1881)...
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    Saint George (redirect from George of Lydda)
    Byzantines. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226097923. Ælfric of Eynsham (1881). "Of Saint George" . Ælfric's Lives of Saints. London, Pub. for...
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    connected with the names of Cædmon (e.g. Christ and Satan) and Cynewulf. It is subsequently repeated in Ælfric of Eynsham's homilies c. 1000 AD, which...
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    Proto-Protestantism (category History of Protestantism)
    Ælfric of Eynsham: Protestants have appealed to Ælfric of Eynsham as evidence for the English church not believing transubstantiation, because of his...
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    Gregorian Sacramentary of the late 8th century. About two centuries later, Ælfric of Eynsham, an Anglo-Saxon abbot, wrote of the rite of strewing ashes on...
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  • pair of books counted as one, and not including the Book of Ruth). Augustine of Hippo produced a piece called Questions on the Heptateuch. Ælfric of Eynsham...
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  • pronoun. Before the writings of Ælfric of Eynsham, þæt was normally regularized as þe in writing, but by the time Ælfric lived, þæt was common. As a pronoun...
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    Nangeli, woman who cut her breast in protest Of Saint Agatha in "Ælfric's Lives of Saints", by Ælfric of Eynsham London, Pub. for the Early English text society...
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    2018-03-16. "St. Agnes Library". Of Saint Agnes in "Ælfric's Lives of Saints", by Ælfric of Eynsham London, Pub. for the Early English text society, by...
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  • 10th-century series of homilies by Ælfric of Eynsham Lives of the Saints (Skarga), a 1570s Polish book Butler's Lives of the Saints, a 1750s English collection...
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    Regularis Concordia to the Good Shepherd. The contemporary theologian Ælfric of Eynsham also praised Edgar; he urged obedience to monarchy, which he regarded...
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    Ormulum (category Medieval documents of England)
    English since the works of Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 990). The motivation was to provide an accessible English text for the benefit of the less educated, which...
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