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Warner, Rubie D.-N., ed., Early English Homilies from the Twelfth-Century MS. Vespasian D. xiv (Early English Text Society Original Series 152,1917 [Rpt. 1998]). ISBN: 859918939 Find this book in a library

Text name(s): Homilies

Number of pages of primary source text: 149

Author(s):

Aelfric

Dates: 980 - 1020

Archival Reference: MS. Vespasian D. xiv

Original Language(s):

English - Middle English

Translation:

Original language included

Geopolitical Region(s):

England

Record Type(s):

Sermons

Subject Heading(s):

Clergy - Monks, Nuns, Friars
Literature - Devotional
Piety
Religion - Institutional Church
Saints

Apparatus:

Comments:

Ælfric of Eynsham was an abbot and prolific writer of devotional and didactic material – more of his works survive than any other Old English author. This series of 50 homilies, preserved in a twelfth-century manuscript, focuses on the events of the liturgical year.

Introduction Summary:

2 pages of introductory material. Another volume containing more information (an introduction, notes, and glossary) was to have been published, but was never printed. The material here simply outlines the alterations made by the editor, as well as a dedication.

Cataloger:MK; KML

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