| #4810056 in Books | 2006-10-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.60 x2.60 x5.50l,2.65 | File type: PDF | 856 pages||||"With this book in hand, we can better understand why ælfric 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
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.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Aelfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary and Glossary (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series) | Malcolm Godden. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
