Old English Homily and Its Background

by Paul E. Szarmach

Overview

Essays on the largest body of prose work in Old English, by Stafford, Gatch, Smetana, Goddin, HuppéLetson, Nichols, Tandy, Jurovics, Dalbey, Szarmach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438421735
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	09/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	915 KB

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

Editorial Reviews

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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