The Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation
Published on 26. November 2020
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-90-04-43927-6 (ISBN)
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The Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation offers important essays on the origins, textual transmission, and (re)use of early English preaching texts between the ninth and the late twelfth centuries. Associated with the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English project, these studies provide fresh insights into one of the most complex textual genres of early medieval literature. Contributions deal with the definition of the anonymous homiletic corpus in Old English, the history of scholarship on its Latin sources, and the important unedited Pembroke and Angers Latin homiliaries. They also include new source and manuscript identifications, and in-depth studies of a number of popular Old English homilies, their themes, revisions, and textual relations.
Contributors are: Aidan Conti, Robert Getz, Thomas N. Hall, Susan Irvine, Esther Lemmerz, Stephen Pelle, Thijs Porck, Winfried Rudolf, Donald G. Scragg, Robert K. Upchurch, Jonathan Wilcox, Charles D. Wright, Samantha Zacher.
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Contributors are: Aidan Conti, Robert Getz, Thomas N. Hall, Susan Irvine, Esther Lemmerz, Stephen Pelle, Thijs Porck, Winfried Rudolf, Donald G. Scragg, Robert K. Upchurch, Jonathan Wilcox, Charles D. Wright, Samantha Zacher.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
697 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43927-6 (9789004439276)
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Winfried Rudolf, Ph.D. (2005), Jena University, is Professor of Medieval English Studies at Goettingen University. He has published widely on Old English homilies and their Latin sources and is principal investigator of the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English project.
Susan Irvine, DPhil (1987), Oxford University, has been Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London since 2013. She has published widely on Old English poetry and prose, including editions of homilies and of the Old English Boethius.
Susan Irvine, DPhil (1987), Oxford University, has been Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London since 2013. She has published widely on Old English poetry and prose, including editions of homilies and of the Old English Boethius.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Plates
Abbreviations and Short Titles
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
?Winfried Rudolf and Susan Irvine
2 The Corpus of Old English Anonymous Homilies
?Donald G. Scragg
3 Sourcing Old English Anonymous Homilies: The Pioneers (Max Foerster, Rudolph Willard, and J. E. Cross)
?Charles D. Wright
4 The Sources of the Pembroke 25 Homiliary
?Thomas N. Hall
5 New Manuscript Witnesses to the Homiliary of Angers
?Aidan Conti, Stephen Pelle, and Winfried Rudolf
6 The Lenten Tithe of Days: An Old English Theme and Its Treatment and Sources in Three Anonymous Homilies (Irvine V, Napier LV, and Blickling III)
?Robert Getz
7 A New Analogue for Some Exegetical Motifs in Assmann Homily XIII
?Esther Lemmerz
8 The Sources and Composition of Two Old English Sunday Letter Homilies
?Stephen Pelle
9 Columbanus's De mundi transitu in Early Medieval England: A New Source for an Old English Homily (Irvine VII) in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 343
?Thijs Porck
10 Jews and Judaizing as Pathologies in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination: Toward a Theory of Early Somatic Anti-Judaism
?Samantha Zacher
11 The Pains and Pleasures of Vercelli Homily IX and the Delights of Textual Transmission
?Jonathan Wilcox
12 The Resonances and Roles of Vercelli Homily X in Multiple Manuscripts
?Robert K. Upchurch
Bibliography
Indexes
List of Figures and Plates
Abbreviations and Short Titles
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
?Winfried Rudolf and Susan Irvine
2 The Corpus of Old English Anonymous Homilies
?Donald G. Scragg
3 Sourcing Old English Anonymous Homilies: The Pioneers (Max Foerster, Rudolph Willard, and J. E. Cross)
?Charles D. Wright
4 The Sources of the Pembroke 25 Homiliary
?Thomas N. Hall
5 New Manuscript Witnesses to the Homiliary of Angers
?Aidan Conti, Stephen Pelle, and Winfried Rudolf
6 The Lenten Tithe of Days: An Old English Theme and Its Treatment and Sources in Three Anonymous Homilies (Irvine V, Napier LV, and Blickling III)
?Robert Getz
7 A New Analogue for Some Exegetical Motifs in Assmann Homily XIII
?Esther Lemmerz
8 The Sources and Composition of Two Old English Sunday Letter Homilies
?Stephen Pelle
9 Columbanus's De mundi transitu in Early Medieval England: A New Source for an Old English Homily (Irvine VII) in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 343
?Thijs Porck
10 Jews and Judaizing as Pathologies in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination: Toward a Theory of Early Somatic Anti-Judaism
?Samantha Zacher
11 The Pains and Pleasures of Vercelli Homily IX and the Delights of Textual Transmission
?Jonathan Wilcox
12 The Resonances and Roles of Vercelli Homily X in Multiple Manuscripts
?Robert K. Upchurch
Bibliography
Indexes