Wealth and the Material World in the Old Englis. Faulkner**

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian CorpusAuthor(s): Amy Faulkner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783277599, 978-1783277599\nSynopsis\nWINNER: 2025 Beatrice White Prize \n\nA new, materialistic reading of the Alfredian corpus, drawing on diverse approaches from thing theory to Augustinian principles of use and enjoyment to uncover how these works explore the material world.\n\nThe Old English prose translations traditionally attributed to Alfred the Great (versions of Gregory's Regula pastoralis, Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae, Augustine's Soliloquia and the first fifty Psalms) urge detachment from the material world; but despite this, its flotsam and jetsam, from costly treasures to everyday objects, abound within them.\n\nThis book reads these original and inventive translations from a materialist perspective, drawing on approaches as diverse as thing theory and Augustine.