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The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' Lives in the vernacular. Of these Lives,

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• Full title: Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England
• Author: Mechthild Gretsch
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 276
• EAN: 9780521855419
• ISBN: 0521855411
• ID: 02047318
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 595 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. January 2006

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