The Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation

422 Pages·2021·2.693 MB·English

by  Winfried Rudolf, Susan Irvine (eds.)

The Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation
Medieval and Renaissance
Authors and Texts
Editor-in-Chief
Francis G. Gentry (Emeritus Professor of German, Penn State University)
Editorial Board
Teodolinda Barolini (Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia
University)
Cynthia Brown (Professor of French, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Marina Brownlee (Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Professor of
Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
Keith Busby (Douglas Kelly Professor of Medieval French, University of
Wisconsin-Madison)
Jason Harris (Director of the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies,
University College Cork)
Alastair Minnis (Professor of English, Yale University)
Brian Murdoch (Professor of German, Stirling University)
Jan Ziolkowski (Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard
University and Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)
volume 25
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Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS CXVII, fol. 76v (detail). By kind
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The Anonymous Old English
Homily: Sources, Composition,
and Variation
Edited by
Winfried Rudolf and Susan Irvine
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of Illustrations and Tables viii
Abbreviations and Short Titles ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
1 Introduction 1
Winfried Rudolf and Susan Irvine
2 The Corpus of Old English Anonymous Homilies 16
Donald G. Scragg
3 Sourcing Old English Anonymous Homilies: The Pioneers (Max Förster,
Rudolph Willard, and J. E. Cross) 36
Charles D. Wright
4 The Sources of the Pembroke 25 Homiliary 85
Thomas N. Hall
5 New Manuscript Witnesses to the Homiliary of Angers 137
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) 164
Robert Getz
7 A New Analogue for Some Exegetical Motifs in Assmann
Homily XIII 187
Esther Lemmerz
8 The Sources and Composition of Two Old English Sunday Letter
Homilies 207
Stephen Pelle
vi Contents
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 343 234
Thijs Porck
10 Jews and Judaizing as Pathologies in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination:
Toward a Theory of Early Somatic Anti-Judaism 257
Samantha Zacher
11 The Pains and Pleasures of Vercelli Homily IX and the Delights of
Textual Transmission 287
Jonathan Wilcox
12 The Resonances and Roles of Vercelli Homily X in
Multiple Manuscripts 312
Robert K. Upchurch
Bibliography 337
Index of Manuscripts 388
Index of Latin and Old English Homilies and Sermons 391
Index of the Christian Calendar (Temporale) 395
General Index 396