Ælfric’s De Temporibus Anni. Edited by Martin Blake
Ælfric’sDe temporibus anni is a curiosity, a brief and orderly summary of essential general scientific knowledge distilled principally from Bede’s writings. As Martin Blake points out (p. 66), Ælfric does not aspire ‘to the heights of scientific learning’ seen in Bede’s De temporum ratione. Rather,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 821-823 |
| Review of: | Aelfric's De temporibus anni (Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2009) (Roberts, Jane)
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Book review
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| Summary: | Ælfric’sDe temporibus anni is a curiosity, a brief and orderly summary of essential general scientific knowledge distilled principally from Bede’s writings. As Martin Blake points out (p. 66), Ælfric does not aspire ‘to the heights of scientific learning’ seen in Bede’s De temporum ratione. Rather, the indications are of ‘an educational curriculum in England at the time which had limited ambitions in this area’. In Cambridge, University Library, Gg. 3. 28, where the De temporibus anni follows directly at the end of the second series of his Catholic Homilies, Ælfric himself tells us that his short treatise (‘lytel cwyde’) is not intended as a homily. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq090 |
