Publisher description for lfric's Catholic homilies. The first series : text / edited by Peter Clemoes.
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This is a new edition of the forty Old English homilies which make up the first of the two series of Catholic Homilies written by Aelfric of Eynsham c. 990. It is a major work of Anglo-Saxon prose, written by one of the foremost scholars of his time. A subsequent volume, in preparation, will
provide commentary and glossary for this text as well as for the Second Series, published in 1979.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Catholic Church -- Sermons.
Christian literature, English (Old)
Sermons, Medieval -- England.
Sermons, English (Old)