Ælfric's Catholic homilies.
Subtitle: text
By: edited by Peter Clemoes.
Contributors: Clemoes, Peter.
Series: Early English Text Society ;; no. S.S. 17; Early English Text Society (Series) ;; no. 17.
Publisher: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: ang; eng
Number of pages: 562
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Sermons; Christian literature, English (Old); Sermons, Medieval -- England; Sermons, English (Old)
Description: 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.
Notes: Text in Anglo-Saxon; editorial notes in English.
Includes bibliographical references.