The Old English homily : precedent, practice, and appropriation / edited by Aaron J. Kleist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kleist, Aaron J.

Series:

Studies in the early Middle Ages ; 17.

Studies in the early Middle Ages ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English prose literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

Preaching--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Preaching.

Sermons, English (Old).

English prose literature--Old English.

England.

History.

Sermons, Medieval--England--History and criticism.

Sermons, Medieval.

Sermons, English (Old)--History and criticism.

Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Theology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 532 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2007]

Summary:

The quarter-century that has passed since Paul Szarmach's and Bernard Huppe's groundbreaking The Old English Homily and its Backgrounds (1978) has seen staggering changes in the field of Anglo-Saxon homiletics. Primary materials have become accessible to scholars in unprecedented levels, whether digitally or through new critical editions, and these have generated in turn a flood of secondary scholarship. The articles in this volume showcase and build on these developments. The first five essays consider various contexts of and influences on Anglo-Saxon homilies: patristic and early medieval Latin sources, continental homiliaries and preaching practices, traditions of Old Testament interpretation and adaptation, and the liturgical setting of preaching texts. Six studies then turn to the sermons themselves, examining style and rhetoric in the Vercelli homilies, the codicology of the Blickling Book, sanctorale and temporale in the works of AElfric, and the challenges posed by Wulfstan's self-referential corpus. Finally, the last entries take us past the Conquest to discuss the re-use of homiletic material in England and its environs from the eleventh to eighteenth century. Together these articles offer medieval scholars a new Old English Homily, one that serves both as an introducton to key figures and issues in the field and as a model of studies for the next quarter-century.

Contents:

Precedent

Old English Homilies and Latin Sources / Charles D. Wright 15

AElfric's Manuscript of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary: A Provisional Analysis / Joyce Hill 67

The Carolingian De festiuitatibus and the Blickling Book / Nancy M. Thompson 97

The Old Testament Homily: AElfric as Biblical Translator / Rachel Anderson 121

The Liturgical Context of AElfric's Homilies for Rogation / Stephen J. Harris 143

Practice

Rereading the Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Homilies / Samantha Zacher 173

The Codicology of Anglo-Saxon Homiletic Manuscripts, Especially the Blickling Homilies / M. J. Toswell 209

Latin Sermons for Saints in Early English Homiliaries and Legendaries / Thomas N. Hall 227

Homiletic Contexts for AElfric's Hagiography: The Legend of Saints Cecilia and Valerian / Robert K. Upchurch 265

AElfric's or Not? The Making of a Temporale Collection in Late Anglo-Saxon England / Loredana Teresi 285

Wulfstan as Reader, Writer, and Rewriter / Andy Orchard 311

Appropriation

Old Wine in a New Bottle: Recycled Instructional Materials in Seasons for Fasting / Mary P. Richards 345

The Circulation of the Old English Homily in the Twelfth Century: New Evidence from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 343 / Aidan Conti 365

Preaching Past the Conquest: Lambeth Palace 487 and Cotton Vespasian A. XXII / Mary Swan 403

Anglo-Saxon Homilies in their Scandinavian Context / Christopher Abram 425

Anglo-Saxon Homiliaries in Tudor and Stuart England / Aaron J Kleist 445

Appendix Anglo-Saxon Homiliaries as Designated by Ker 493.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

2503517927

9782503517926

OCLC:

183149696