Aelfric's Catholic Homilies, First Series: Text (Hardcover)

Peter Clemoes

ISBN 10: 0197224180 / ISBN 13: 9780197224182

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003

About this Item

Hardcover. This is one of the major works of Anglo-Saxon prose, written by one of the foremost scholars of the time and the acknowledged master of prose style. The text is based on the Royal manuscript, which represents the earliest version of the text, and has corrections and annotation in Aelfric's own hand. All the early alterations to the Royal manuscript (amounting to more than 1000) and all substantive readings from other manuscripts, many of which reflect Aelfric's own revision, are recorded in the apparatus. A lengthy introduction describes all the manuscripts and analyzes in detail Aelfric's development of the text, the nature of his revision, and the distribution and copying of the text over the subsequent two centuries. A subsequent volume provides commentary and glossary for this text. An edition of the forty Old English homilies which make up the first of the two series of Catholic Homilies written by Aelfric of Eynsham c. 990. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aelfric's Catholic Homilies, First Series: Text (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197224180
• ISBN 13: 9780197224182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This is a new edition of the forty Old English homilies which make up the first of the two series of Catholic Homilies written by Aelfric of Eynsham c. 990. It is a major work of Anglo-Saxon prose, written by one of the foremost scholars of his time. A subsequent volume, in preparation, will provide commentary and glossary for this text as well as for the Second Series, published in 1979.

Language Notes

Text: English