title: Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)
author:  Mechthild Gretsch 
description: "This is a masterly review of these five selected vitae by a scholar who has immersed herself deeply in the literature of the tenth-century Winchester reform movement. Its greatest achievements are the unfolding, through patient analysis of sources that were or could have been available to Aelfric..., of the varying strategies employed by Aelfric to commemorate his subjects and...the reinforcement of our appreciation of the importance of Aelfric of upholding the principles of the monastic reform of Aethelwold and of pastoral response to current events. Gretsch's facility in contemporary English is superb." <br />-Milton McC. Gatch, Union Theological Seminary, Journal of Medieval Studies
zlib_text: Anglo-Saxon Texts  5
  ÆLFRIC’S
  LIFE OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT
  The life and thought of Saint Basil the Great (329–79) were a seminal
  influence on western theology and monasticism, their echoes reaching
  as far as Anglo-Saxon England: the hagiographic tradition of this saint
  began in Greek, but by the end of the tenth century had already been
  translated three times into Latin and once into Old English.
  This book presents a new edition and translation of the Old English
  text, prepared by Ælfric of Eynsham in the tenth century, with an
  edition of one of the Latin versions of the Vita Basilii. These are
  complemented by the first ever full-length study of the hagiographies of
  Basil, setting these textual traditions against their wider intellectual
  background. It outlines evidence for the cult of Saint Basil in Anglo-
  Saxon England from the late-seventh century, together with the
  influence of his theological thought, especially upon Bede's work. It
  then moves on to explore the Old English transl