Aelfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary, and Glossary

ISBN-13: 9780197224199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 858 str.

Malcolm Godden;Aelfric; M. R. Godden

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Godden's Introduction, Commentary, and Glossary brings a triumphant closure to a project that will be of immense value for years to come. Ælfric is fortunate in his editors.