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Old English Homily and Its Background
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Hardcover - 267 pages |
| Release Date: June 1978 |
ISBN10: 0-87395-376-2
ISBN13: 978-0-87395-376-4
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ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5148-0
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Essays on the largest body of prose work in Old English, by Stafford, Gatch, Smetana, Goddin, HuppéLetson, Nichols, Tandy, Jurovics, Dalbey, Szarmach.
“There is nothing like this in Old English critical literature … Successfully contributes to an appreciative understanding of the Old English homily and the considerable achievement of Aelfric … An essential work.” — CHOICE
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Table of Contents
Abbreviations and Short Titles
Introduction
Church and Society in the Age of Aelfric
P. A. Stafford
The Achievement of Aelfric and His Colleagues in European Perspective
Milton McC. Gatch
Paul the Deacon's Patristic Anthology
Cyril L. Smetana
Aelfric and the Vernacular Prose Tradition
Malcolm Godden
Alfred and Aelfric: a Study of Two Prefaces
Bernard F. Huppé
The Poetic Content of the Revival Homily
D. R. Letson
Methodical Abbreviation: A Study in Aelfric's Friday Homilies for Lent
Ann Eljenholm Nichols
Verbal Aspect as a Narrative Structure in Aelfric's Lives of Saints
Keith A. Tandy
Sermo Lupi and the Moral Purpose of Rhetoric
Raachel Jurovics
Themes and Techniques in the Blickling Lenten Homilies
Marcia A. Dalbey
The Vercelli Homilies: Style and Structure
Paul E. Szarmach
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