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

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43927-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 697 g

Reihe: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts

The Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation offers important essays on the origins, textual transmission, and (re)use of early English preaching texts between the ninth and the late twelfth centuries. Associated with the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English project, these studies provide fresh insights into one of the most complex textual genres of early medieval literature. Contributions deal with the definition of the anonymous homiletic corpus in Old English, the history of scholarship on its Latin sources, and the important unedited Pembroke and Angers Latin homiliaries. They also include new source and manuscript identifications, and in-depth studies of a number of popular Old English homilies, their themes, revisions, and textual relations.


Contributors are: Aidan Conti, Robert Getz, Thomas N. Hall, Susan Irvine, Esther Lemmerz, Stephen Pelle, Thijs Porck, Winfried Rudolf, Donald G. Scragg, Robert K. Upchurch, Jonathan Wilcox, Charles D. Wright, Samantha Zacher.


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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rudolf, Winfried

Irvine, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Predigten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Plates

Abbreviations and Short Titles

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Winfried Rudolf and Susan Irvine

2 The Corpus of Old English Anonymous Homilies

Donald G. Scragg

3 Sourcing Old English Anonymous Homilies: The Pioneers (Max Förster, Rudolph Willard, and J. E. Cross)

Charles D. Wright

4 The Sources of the Pembroke 25 Homiliary

Thomas N. Hall

5 New Manuscript Witnesses to the Homiliary of Angers

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)

Robert Getz

7 A New Analogue for Some Exegetical Motifs in Assmann Homily XIII

Esther Lemmerz

8 The Sources and Composition of Two Old English Sunday Letter Homilies

Stephen Pelle

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

Thijs Porck

10 Jews and Judaizing as Pathologies in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination: Toward a Theory of Early Somatic Anti-Judaism

Samantha Zacher

11 The Pains and Pleasures of Vercelli Homily IX and the Delights of Textual Transmission

Jonathan Wilcox

12 The Resonances and Roles of Vercelli Homily X in Multiple Manuscripts

Robert K. Upchurch

Bibliography

Indexes

Über Autor(innen)

Winfried Rudolf, Ph.D. (2005), Jena University, is Professor of Medieval English Studies at Göttingen University. He has published widely on Old English homilies and their Latin sources and is principal investigator of the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English project.

Susan Irvine, DPhil (1987), Oxford University, has been Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London since 2013. She has published widely on Old English poetry and prose, including editions of homilies and of the Old English Boethius.