Augustines Soliloquies in Old English and in Latin Lockett Leslie
Augustines Soliloquies in Old English and in Latin Lockett Leslie A new edition featuring Saint Augustine's dialogue on immortality from a tenth-century Latin manuscript, accompanied by an Old…
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Augustines Soliloquies in Old English and in Latin Lockett Leslie
A new edition featuring Saint Augustine's dialogue on immortality from a tenth-century Latin manuscript, accompanied by an Old English vernacular adaptation translated into modern English for the first time in a hundred years.Around the turn of the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted an Old English version of Saint Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia, a dialogue exploring the nature of truth and the immortality of the soul. It retains Augustine's focus on the soul, but it also explores loyalty--to friends, to one's temporal lord, and to the Lord God--and it presses toward a deeper understanding of the afterlife. The Old English Soliloquies was, perhaps, inspired by King Alfred the Great's mandate to translate important Latin works.
Will we endure a state of impersonal and static forgetfulness, or will we retain our memories, our accrued wisdom, and our
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