biography
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Ælfric
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also known as Ælfric Grammaticus (‘The Grammarian’)
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pronunciation:
[alfrik, alfrich]
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| lived:
| (c.955–c.1020)
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| biography:
| Anglo-Saxon clergyman and writer, the greatest vernacular prose writer of his time. He became a monk and later abbot at the new monastery of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, S England, and subsequently the first Abbot of Eynsham in Oxfordshire, SC England. He composed two books of 80 Homilies in Old English, a paraphrase of the first seven books of the Bible, and a book of Lives of the Saints. He also wrote a Latin grammar and Latin–English glossary, accompanied by a Latin Colloquium which gives a vivid picture of social conditions in England at the time. |
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