Aelfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary, and Glossary (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series) [Hardcover]

Aelfric (Author), Malcolm Godden (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0197224199 | ISBN-13: 978-0197224199

This is the third and final volume in the Early English Text Society's edition of AElfric's Catholic Homilies, a set of preaching texts in two series composed in Old English around 900 for the use of preachers throughout England. This final volume gives an account of the origin, function, and dating of the Catholic Homilies and their Latin sources; a detailed commentary on all eighty homilies; and a glossary of all words occurring in the text.

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"With this book in hand, we can better understand why �lfric was the most prolific, creative, and thoughtful writer of English religious prose in Anglo-Saxon England and why no study of early English sermonsor indeed of English vernacularity in general can afford to neglect the Catholic Homilies. --Speculum

About the Author

M. R. Godden is at University of Oxford.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 864 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 11, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0197224199
• ISBN-13: 978-0197224199
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,814,270 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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