Aelfric's Catholic homilies
Subtitle: introduction, commentary and glossary
By: by Malcolm Godden.
Contributors: Godden, Malcolm.
Series: Early English Text Society, S.S -- 18; SS (Early English Text Society) -- 18.
Publisher: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 794
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Sermons; Christian literature, English (Old); Sermons, English (Old)
Work titles: Catholic homilies.
Description: "This is the third and final volume of the Society's edition of the Catholic Homilies, a set of preaching texts in two series composed in Old English around A.D. 990 for the use of preachers throughout England. Aelfric (monk of Winchester, and then Cerne Abbas and the first abbot of Eynsham) was one of the leading scholars of his time and the foremost prose stylist of the Anglo-Saxon period. The two series of Catholic Homilies together make up the longest extant text in Old English, and are Aelfric's most important work. The text of the Second Series, edited by M.R. Godden, was published in 1979 (S.S. 5), and the text of the First Series, edited by Peter Clemoes, in 1997 (S.S. 17); both volumes included an analysis of the manuscripts of each series and a detailed account of the textual history. 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 occuring in the text."--Jacket.
Notes: Sources of Old English sermons in Latin; commentary and editorial notes in English.

Includes bibliographical references.