| Aelfric's Catholic Homilies: The First Series: Text Contributor(s): Aelfric of Eynsham (Author), Clemoes, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0197224180 ISBN-13: 9780197224182 Publisher: Early English Text Society OUR PRICE: $97.02 Product Type: Hardcover Language: English, Old (ca.450-1100) Published: February 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Sermons - Christian - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 252.014 |
| LCCN: 97223881 |
| Physical Information: 1.88" H x 5.86" W x 8.88" (2.11 lbs) 588 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |