Download or read book Ælfric's Lives of the virgin spouses written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the reader with modern English parallel-text translations, this book places the "Lives of the Virgin Spouses" in literary-historical, manuscript and social contexts. It also complements and provides a contrast with Hugh Magennis's "The Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt", published in the "Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies" series.