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Anglo-Saxon England v33

Anglo-Saxon England v33

Lapidge, Michael
Godden, Malcolm
Keynes, Simon

Hardcover

Series: Anglo-Saxon England, Book 33

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521849055
ISBN13: 9780521849050
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 13 2005
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It is red-letter day in Anglo-Saxon studies when a previously unknown Old English text comes to light. In 2002, as the result of some outstanding scholarly detective work, a fragmentary homiliary, containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light in the Somerset County Records Office in Taunton. The manuscript apparently dates from the middle years of the eleventh century; but questions of when and where and by whom the homiliary was composed can only be answered by close philological study of the Old English text itself. The present volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains a printed edition of this interesting text, and detailed philological analysis leads to the extraordinary hypothesis that the text may have been composed by someone whose native language was not English, and who was apparently unfamiliar with the mainstream of English homiletic composition, best illustrated in the work of lfric. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

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