Rethinking the Pseudo-Eligius sermon collection
James Christopher McCune
St Eligius of Noyon (d. 660) has been credited with the authorship a collection sixteen sermons since their publication in sixteenth century. However, this article demonstrates through detailed analysis sources used these that cannot have composed before end ninth The were written to be preached by bishop vernacular mixed audience clergy and laity. This also shows how for Maundy Thursday can shed light on theory practice public penance late Carolingian church.
Early Medieval Europe