Of these Lives, Ælfric is the most important author ... to his context within the Benedictine Reform of the later tenth century.' The Glass 'Gretsch's study of AElfric and the cult of saints offers a ...

The second, De octo uitiis et de duodecim abusiuis, is a composite text; it combines a treatment of the eight vices and the complementary eight virtues, also found as the last part of Ælfric's Lives ...