Confessing the Faith in Anglo-Saxon England

Wilcox, Miranda

doi:10.5406/jenglgermphil.113.3.0308

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“…Aldhelm is famously reputed by William of Malmesbury to have extemporaneously recast Christian teachings in Old English verse, and Ælfric and Wulfstan of York (d.1023)—the great preachers of the Benedictine Reform—have long been studied from this perspective (Gatch, , ; Upchurch, ). More recently, Wilcox () has surveyed and categorized the surviving Anglo‐Saxon confessions of faith, offering a rich picture of elementary Christian teaching throughout the period and cataloging important affinities between Anglo‐Saxon and Continental confessional formulae, as well as Old English poetry (p. 340). Future studies of catechetical materials will no doubt shed new light on the religious education of the Anglo‐Saxon laity.…”

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A brief history of Anglo‐Saxon education

Weber

2018

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While the Anglo-Saxon period is not always considered the most dynamic milieu for medieval education, recent work in the field belies that impression. Since the 1980s, Anglo-Latinists have edited, translated, and analyzed glosses, treatises, letters, and prefaces that enrich our understanding of Anglo-Saxon education. The turn in the 1990s towards the study of literacy, and subsequent interest in bilingualism, have situated Old English literary texts against the background of educational theory and practice. In recent years, interest in education seems only to have accelerated. Two recent monographs, Emily Thornbury's Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England (2014) and Irina Dumitrescu's The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature (2018), push the boundaries of the field by exploring Anglo-Saxon educational experience in a variety of literary texts. Simultaneously, work on the textual cultures of Anglo-Saxon England-increasingly collaborative and digital-continues to elucidate what and how the Anglo-Saxons read. The recent dynamism of the field offers new opportunities for both Anglo-Saxonists and historians of education going forward.

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