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Of all the English hagiographers no one was more prolific nor so aware of the importance of the genre as Abbot Ælfric of Eynsham.
Ælfric no doubt gained some reputation as a scholar at Winchester, for when, in 987, the abbey of Cerne ( Cerne Abbas in Dorset ) was finished, he was sent by Bishop Ælfheah ( Alphege ), Æthelwold's successor, at the request of the chief benefactor of the abbey, the ealdorman Æthelmær the Stout, to teach the Benedictine monks there.
Ælfric by no means expressed the popular opinion of the time.
Though Ælfric had formerly been identified with the archbishop, thanks to the work of Lingard and Dietrich, most modern scholars now identify Ælfric as holding no higher office than abbot of Eynsham.

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Ælfric and Eynsham
Ælfheah sent Ælfric of Eynsham to Cerne Abbey to take charge of its monastic school.
Ælfric of Eynsham paraphrased Bede into Old English, saying " Now the Earth's roundness and the Sun's orbit constitute the obstacle to the day's being equally long in every land.
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Liebermann's more subtle position seems to be vindicated by testimony from abbot Ælfric of Eynsham, the leading homilist of the late 10th century, who wrote: No man can make himself king, but the people has the choice to choose as king whom they please ; but after he is consecrated as king, he then has dominion over the people, and they cannot shake his yoke off their necks.
Æthelweard was the friend and patron of Ælfric of Eynsham, who in the preface to his Old English Lives of saints, addressed Æthelweard and his son Æthelmær.
There are some indications that he was a student of Ælfric of Eynsham, the homilist.
Ælfric of Eynsham was a prolific 10th century writer of hagiographies and homilies.
Like its Old English precursor from Ælfric, an Abbot of Eynsham, it includes very little Biblical text, and focuses more on personal commentary.
* At about the same time as the Wessex Gospels, the priest Ælfric of Eynsham produced an independent translation of the Pentateuch with Joshua and Judges.
Ælfric of Eynsham (; ) ( c. 955 – c. 1010 ) was an English abbot, as well as a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres.
1005 is the other certain date we have for Ælfric, when he left Cerne for nobleman Æthelmær ’ s new monastery in Eynsham, a long eighty-five-mile journey inland in the direction of Oxford.
fr: Ælfric d ' Eynsham
nl: Ælfric van Eynsham
pt: Ælfric de Eynsham
Most notably, Ælfric of Eynsham, late 10th-century Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer, composed a homily ( in prose ) of the tale.
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Ælfric of Eynsham, writing in the 10th century, recorded how " the heathens made him into a celebrated god and made offerings to him at crossroads and brought oblations to high hills for him.
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With Ælfric of Eynsham, he is one of the two major vernacular writers in early eleventh-century England, a period which, ecclesiastically anyway, was still very much enamoured of and greatly influenced by the Benedictine Reform.

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