Ælfric of Eynsham
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Ælfric of Eynsham
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Ælfric of Eynsham was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian, Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist. In the view of Peter Hunter Blair, he was "a man comparable both in the quantity of his writings and in the quality of his mind even with Bede himself." According to Claudio Leonardi, he "represented the high
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English abbot (c. 955 – c. 1010)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lfric_of_Eynsham
date created:
2004-03-02T18:58:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T13:43:40Z
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