Aelfric's Catholic Homilies: The First Series: Text

by Ælfric of Eynsham

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197224180
• ISBN13: 9780197224182
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Early English Text Society
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"