Anglo-Saxon England
Malcolm Godden editor Simon Keynes editor Michael Lapidge editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:11th Oct '07
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In 2002, a fragmentary homiliary containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light. This volume contains a printed edition of this text.
In 2002, a fragmentary homiliary containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light. The manuscript apparently dates from the mid-eleventh century, and this volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains a printed edition of this interesting text. The usual comprehensive bibliography is also provided.It is red-letter day in Anglo-Saxon studies when a previously unknown Old English text comes to light. In 2002, as the result of some outstanding scholarly detective work, a fragmentary homiliary, containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light in the Somerset County Records Office in Taunton. The manuscript apparently dates from the middle years of the eleventh century; but questions of when and where and by whom the homiliary was composed can only be answered by close philological study of the Old English text itself. The present volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains a printed edition of this interesting text, and detailed philological analysis leads to the extraordinary hypothesis that the text may have been composed by someone whose native language was not English, and who was apparently unfamiliar with the mainstream of English homiletic composition, best illustrated in the work of Ælfric. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.
ISBN: 9780521038591
Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 23mm
Weight: 622g
416 pages