Old English Homily and Its BackgroundPaul E. Szarmach, Bernard Felix Huppé SUNY Press, 1978 M01 1 - 267 pages Essays on the largest body of prose work in Old English, by Stafford, Gatch, Smetana, Goddin, HuppéLetson, Nichols, Tandy, Jurovics, Dalbey, Szarmach. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Church and Society in the Age of Aelfric | 11 |
The Achievement of Aelfric and His Colleagues in European Perspective | 43 |
Paul the Deacons Patristic Anthology | 75 |
Aelfric and the Vernacular Prose Tradition | 99 |
a Study of Two Prefaces | 119 |
The Poetic Content of the Revival Homily | 139 |
A Study in Aelfrics Friday Homilies for Lent | 157 |
Verbal Aspects as a Narrative Structure in Aelfrics Lives of Saints | 181 |
Sermo Lupi and the Moral Purpose of Rhetoric | 203 |
Themes and Techniques in the Blickling Lenten Homilies | 221 |
Style and Structure | 241 |
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Aelfric Aethelred Aethelweard Alcuin Alfred Alfred's Alfredian alliteration Anglo-Saxon England aspect aspectual features audience Augustine Augustine's Bede Bede's Beowulf Bethurum biblical bishops Blickling Blickling Homilies Caesarius Caesarius of Arles Carolingian catechetical Christ Christian church clause clausules collection dæt discussion ealdorman ealle ecclesiastical eleventh century Eugenia example exegesis exegetical exhortation Eynsham God's Godes Gospel Gregory Gregory's Hælend hell heora homiletic homiliary homilist Irish king language Latin literary literature liturgical mannum manuscript Medieval monasteries monastic monks moral narrative Old English homilies passage Paul Paul the Deacon Paul's pericope phrase poetic poetry preacher preaching Preface present prose punctual quod reform revival rhetorical royal saints sentence Sermo Lupi sermons sources structure style Sunday theme tion tradition translation verbal verbs Vercelli Book vernacular Vita wæron Whitelock word writings Wulfstan þære þæs þæt þam þurh