Aelfric's Catholic Homilies: The First Series: Text

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.

• | Author: Aelfric of Eynsham
• | Publisher: Early English Text Society
• | Publication Date: Feb 05, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 588 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0197224180
• | ISBN-13: 9780197224182