Introduction
The quarter-century that has passed since Paul Szarmach’s and Bernard Huppé’s groundbreaking Old English Homily its Backgrounds (1978) seen staggering changes in the field of Anglo-Saxon homiletics. Primary materials have become accessible to scholars unprecedented levels, whether digitally or through new critical editions, these generated turn a flood secondary scholarship. articles this volume showcase build on developments. first five essays consider various contexts infuences homilies: patristic early medieval Latin sources, continental homiliaries preaching practices, traditions Testament interpretation adaptation, liturgical setting texts. Six studies then sermons themselves, examining style rhetoric Vercelli homilies, codicology Blickling Book, sanctorale temporale works Ælfric, challenges posed by Wulfstan’s self-referential corpus. Finally, last entries take us past Conquest discuss re-use homiletic material England environs from eleventh eighteenth century. Together offer Homily, one serves both as an introduction key figures issues model for next quarter-century.
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