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Malcolm
Godden.
Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary
and
Glossary.
Oxford University
Press for the Early English Text
Society, 2000.
Supplementary Series no. 18.
lxii,794pp.
Hardback, ISBN
0197224199.
Publisher's
recommended price £50.00
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
AD
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, and the text of the First Series, edited by Peter Clemoes, in
1997;
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 occurring in the text.
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