Poetry on Christian Subjects

by Margaret Clunies Ross

This volume is devoted to poems of Christian piety, often recorded outside prose contexts, which date from the mid-twelfth to the end of the fourteenth century. They range in subject matter from saints' lives and lives of the apostles to poems addressed to the Cross and the Virgin Mary and reveal the poetic compositions of some of the learned ecclesiastics (and a few laymen) of medieval Iceland.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503518931
• ISBN13: 9782503518930
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 1114 Pages
• Weight: 5.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.2" x 6.6" x 9.7"