First modern edition and translation of the homilies of one of the
most important religious figures of his time. AElfric of Eynsham
stands supreme as a distinguished homilist, translator, and
moralist - one whose writings were sought by the most powerful
churchmen and landed warlords of his day. In his sermons, the dead
are raised to life, innocents are betrayed, civilizations come to
ruin, prophecies are finally fulfilled, and sorrow is swallowed up
in salvation. He offers guidance regarding sex, financial counsel,
botanical excursuses, etymological asides, lions cowed by roosters,
arch-heretics disemboweled, and seemingly inconsequential figures
receiving everlasting crowns. He also considers the origin of
Antichrist, recounts supernatural visions of damnation and
deliverance, teases out the tension between predestination and free
will, explores the multifarious nature of the soul, seeks to
categorize creation, and presses the boundaries of conceptual
capacity in describing the divine nature. Treatises take up such
subjects as the Holy Spirit, cognition, penitence, and proper
comportment. Private prayers appear alongside public declarations
of the Christian faith found in the Paternoster and the Apostles'
and Nicene Creeds. The thirty-one texts presented here, with facing
translations, span the course of his career: Old English and Latin,
ordinary and alliterative prose, pithy prayers and exhaustive
exegesis. Nine appear in print for the first time; others for the
first time in well over 100 years. Introductions to the texts offer
overviews of the content, composition, and circulation of each
work, using the fruits of the latest research to envision
real-world contexts for their use in specific places, among
particular groups, and by certain individuals. Meanwhile, the
commentary traces AElfric's role in the history of ideas, examining
his relationship to over 100 sources, 200 other AElfrician works,
and over 1,000 biblical passages; it seeks to clarify AElfric's
compositional aims and further to establish the authorship and date
of these remarkable writings from early England.
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