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.

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

Literature & Fiction

Aelfric

History & Criticism

Early English Text Society

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints―including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops―for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time when England was under increasingly severe Viking attack, the examples of these saints modeled courageous faith, self-sacrifice, and individual and collective resistance. The Lives also covers topics as diverse as the four kinds of war, the three orders of society, and whether the unjust can be exempt from eternal punishment. Aelfric intended this series to complement his Catholic Homilies, two important and widely disseminated collections used for preaching to lay people and clergy. The translation is presented alongside a new edition of Lives of Saints, for which all extant manuscripts have been collated afresh.

Old English Lives of Saints, Volume II (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Harvard University Press

Old English Lives of Saints, Volume III (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

The Old English Catholic Homilies: The First Series (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints―including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops―for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time when England was under increasingly severe Viking attack, the examples of these saints modeled courageous faith, self-sacrifice, and individual and collective resistance. The Lives also covers topics as diverse as the four kinds of war, the three orders of society, and whether the unjust can be exempt from eternal punishment. Aelfric intended this series to complement his Catholic Homilies, two important and widely disseminated collections used for preaching to lay people and clergy. The translation is presented alongside a new edition of Lives of Saints, for which all extant manuscripts have been collated afresh.

Old English Lives of Saints, Volume I (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

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The Homilies Of The Anglo-Saxon Church V1, Part 1: The Sermones Catholici, Or Homilies Of Aelfric (1843)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Natale Sancti Gregorii Papae: Aelfric'S Anglo-Saxon Homily On the Birthday of St. Gregory, and Collateral Extracts from King Alfred'S Version of ... Into English, Notes Critica (Latin Edition)

Nabu Press

Alfrik de Vetere Et Novo Testamento: Pentateuch, Iosua, Buch Der Richter Und Hiob (Old English and English Edition)

An English-Saxon Homily On the Birth-Day of St. Gregory: Anciently Used in the English-Saxon Church: Giving an Account of the Conversion of the ... Into Modern English, with Notes, &C

History

Select Monuments of the Doctrine and Worship of the Catholic Church in England Before the Norman Conquest: Consisting of Aelfric'S Paschal Homily and ... Hours, and Three Metrical Prayers Or Hymns

Reference

Thomson, Ebenezer

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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