The Old English Homily: Precedent, Practice, and Appropriation

533 Pages·2007·4.07 MB·English

by  Aaron J. Kleist

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THE OLD ENGLISH HOMILY
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STUDIES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Editorial Board under the auspices of the
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Elizabeth M. Tyler (University of York)
Julian D. Richards (University of York)
Ross Balzaretti (University of Nottingham)
VOLUME 17
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THE OLD ENGLISH HOMILY
Precedent, Practice, and Appropriation
Edited by
Aaron J Kleist
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The Old English homily : precedent, practice, and appropriation. – (Studies in the early
Middle Ages ; v. 17) 1. English prose literature – Old English, ca. 450–1100 – History
and criticism 2. Preaching – England – History – Middle Ages, 600–1500 3. Sermons,
Medieval – England – History and criticism 4. Sermons, English (Old) – History and
criticism 5. Theology – History – Middle Ages, 600–1500 I. Kleist, Aaron J.
829.8'009
ISBN-13: 9782503517926
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CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations viii
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction 1
Precedent
Old English Homilies and Latin Sources 15
CHARLES D. WRIGHT
Ælfric’s Manuscript of Paul the Deacon’s Homiliary: 67
A Provisional Analysis
JOYCE HILL
The Carolingian De festiuitatibus and the Blickling Book 97
NANCY M. THOMPSON
The Old Testament Homily: Ælfric as Biblical Translator 121
RACHEL ANDERSON
The Liturgical Context of Ælfric’s Homilies for Rogation 143
STEPHEN J. HARRIS
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Practice
Rereading the Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Homilies 173
SAMANTHA ZACHER
The Codicology of Anglo-Saxon Homiletic Manuscripts, 209
Especially the Blickling Homilies
M. J. TOSWELL
Latin Sermons for Saints in Early English Homiliaries and Legendaries 227
THOMAS N. HALL
Homiletic Contexts for Ælfric’s Hagiography: 265
The Legend of Saints Cecilia and Valerian
ROBERT K. UPCHURCH
Ælfric’s or Not? The Making of a Temporale Collection 285
in Late Anglo-Saxon England
LOREDANA TERESI
Wulfstan as Reader, Writer, and Rewriter 311
ANDY ORCHARD
Appropriation
Old Wine in a New Bottle: 345
Recycled Instructional Materials in Seasons for Fasting
MARY P. RICHARDS
The Circulation of the Old English Homily in the Twelfth Century: 365
New Evidence from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 343
AIDAN CONTI
Preaching Past the Conquest: 403
Lambeth Palace 487 and Cotton Vespasian A. XXII
MARY SWAN
Anglo-Saxon Homilies in their Scandinavian Context 425
CHRISTOPHER ABRAM
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Anglo-Saxon Homiliaries in Tudor and Stuart England 445
AARON J KLEIST
Appendix: Anglo-Saxon Homiliaries as Designated by Ker 493
Index 507
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ABBREVIATIONS
ANQ American Notes and Queries
ASE Anglo-Saxon England
ASMMF Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile
Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien und Heiligenleben, ed. by Bruno Ass-
mann, BaP, 3 (Kassel, 1889; repr. Darmstadt, 1964)
BaP Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Prosa
Bazire-Cross Eleven Old English Rogationtide Homilies, ed. by Joyce Bazire and
J. E. Cross (Toronto, 1982; 2nd edn with a new preface, King’s
College London Medieval Studies, 4, London, 1989)
Belfour Twelfth-Century Homilies in MS. Bodley 343, ed. by Arthur
Belfour, EETS: OS, 137 (London, 1909)
Bethurum The Homilies of Wulfstan, ed. by Dorothy Bethurum (Oxford,
1957)
BHL Bibliotheca hagiographica Latina antiquae et mediae aetatis
Blickling The Blickling Homilies of the Tenth Century, ed. by Richard
Morris, EETS: OS, 58, 63, 73 (1874–80; repr. in one vol. with
corrections, London, 1967)
Brotanek Rudolf Brotanek, Texte und Untersuchungen zur altenglischen
Literatur und Kirchengeschichte (Halle, 1913)
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Abbreviations ix
CCCM Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis (Turnhout,
1966–)
CCSL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina (Turnhout, 1953–)
CH I Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: The First Series, Text, ed. by P. A. M.
Clemoes, EETS: SS, 17 (Oxford, 1997)
CH II Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies: The Second Series, Text, ed. by M. R.
Godden, EETS: SS, 5 (London, 1979)
CSASE Cambridge Studies in Anglo Saxon England
EEMF Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile
EETS: OS Early English Text Society: Original Series
EETS: SS Early English Text Society: Supplementary Series
ES English Studies
Fadda A. M. Luiselli Fadda, Nuove omelie anglosassoni della rinascenza
benedettina, Filologia germanica, Testi e studi, 1 (Florence, 1977)
HomM Homilies for Unspecified Occasions, Unpublished (as designated
by Angus Cameron, ‘A List of Old English Texts’, in A Plan for
the Dictionary of Old English, ed. by Roberta Frank and Angus
Cameron (Toronto, 1973), pp. 25–306; rev. edn in the
microfiche Dictionary of Old English, F-fascicle, ed. by Antonette
DiPaolo Healey and others (Toronto, 2004))
HomS Homilies for Specified Occasions (as designated by Cameron,
‘List of Old English Texts’, see HomM above)
HomU Homilies for Unspecified Occasions, Edited (as designated by
Cameron, ‘List of Old English Texts’, see HomM above)
Irvine Old English Homilies from MS Bodley 343, ed. by Susan Irvine,
EETS: OS, 302 (Oxford, 1993)
JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology
LS Ælfric’s Lives of Saints, ed. by W. W. Skeat, EETS: OS, 76, 82, 94,
114 (London, 1881–1900; repr. as 2 vols, 1966)
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
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x Abbreviations
MRTS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
Napier Wulfstan: Sammlung der ihm zugeschriebenen Homilies nebst
Untersuchungen über ihre Echtheit, vol. I, Text und Varianten, ed.
by Arthur Napier (1883; repr. with a bibliographical supplement
by Klaus Ostheeren, Dublin, 1967)
NM Neuphilologische Mitteilungen
NQ Notes & Queries
OEN Old English Newsletter
PL Patrologia Latina, ed. by Jacques-Paul Migne, 221 vols (Paris,
1844–64)
RES Review of English Studies
SH Homilies of Ælfric: A Supplementary Collection, ed. by John C.
Pope, EETS: OS, 259–60 (London, 1967–68)
TCBS Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society
Tristram Vier altenglische Predigten aus der heterodoxen Tradition mit
Kommentar, Übersetzung und Glossar sowie drei weiteren Texten
im Anhang, ed. by Hildegard Tristram (Inaugural-dissertation
Freiburg-im-Breisgau; privately printed, 1970)
Vercelli The Vercelli Homilies and Related Texts, ed. by D. G. Scragg,
EETS: OS, 300 (Oxford, 1992)
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