Ælfric Bata (fl. 1005) was a monk and a disciple of Ælfric of Eynsham at Winchester some time before 1005. The epithet Bata is unclear; the formerly accepted...
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Look up Ælfric in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ælfric (Old English Ælfrīc, Middle English Elfric) is an Anglo-Saxon given name, consisting of the...
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genres. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian (Alfricus Grammaticus), Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist. In the view of Peter Hunter...
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request for help because "other work engages me". In a later dialogue by Ælfric Bata, the aphorism is used to mean "stand a little further off", the advice...
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Vita sancti Wilfrithi Alcuin Asser Wulfstan of Winchester Frithegod Ælfric Bata Wulfstan II of York Byrhtferth of Ramsey Anselm of Canterbury Goscelin...
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retractata, which was used by Ælfric Bata as a source for his own colloquies. The line from the Diogenes story is further garbled in Bata. Hall 2009, p. 205; Gwara...
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was led by Ælfric and Wulfstan, who tried to bring greater lay involvement in the creation of the 'Holy Society'. She observes that "Ælfric has traditionally...
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Scientific Biography. Retrieved 7 September 2012. Thurston, Herbert (1907). "Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia...
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added to by Aelfric Bata, his disciple (1912), in An Anglo-Saxon abbot, Ælfric of Eynsham, pp. 183–195. By S. H. Gem. The canons of Ælfric (1840). Edited...
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famine strikes Sweyn's army, which has to live off the land. November 16 – Ælfric of Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury, leaves ships to the people of Wiltshire...
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