{"product_id":"tradition-and-belief","title":"Tradition And Belief","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooks at early religious texts and their influence on medieval literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooks at early religious texts and their influence on medieval literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this major study of Anglo-Saxon religious texts-sermons, homilies, and saints’ lives written in Old English-Clare A. Lees reveals how the invention of preaching transformed the early medieval church, and thus the culture of medieval England. By placing Anglo-Saxon prose within a social matrix, her work offers a new way of seeing medieval literature through the lens of culture.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo show how the preaching mission of the later Anglo-Saxon church was constructed and received, Lees explores the emergence of preaching from the traditional structures of the early medieval church-its institutional knowledge, genres, and beliefs. Understood as a powerful rhetorical, social, and epistemological process, preaching is shown to have helped define the sociocultural concerns specific to late Anglo-Saxon England.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first detailed study of traditionality in medieval culture, Tradition and Belief is also a case study of one cultural phenomenon from the past. As such-and by concentrating on the theoretically problematic areas of history, religious belief, and aesthetics-the book contributes to debates about the evolving meaning of culture.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eISBN 0-8166-3002-XCloth£34.50$49.95xx\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eISBN 0-8166-3003-8Paper£14.00$19.95x\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e232 Pages5 7\/8 x 9November\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMedieval Cultures Series, volume 19\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clara A. Lees","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615153840508,"sku":"9780816630035","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_d65c7aa0-57c1-434c-b8c7-22236cade803.jpg?v=1746711393","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/tradition-and-belief","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}