Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 33 (Hardcover, New)

It is red-letter day in Anglo-Saxon studies when a previously unknown Old English text comes to light. In 2002, as the result of some outstanding scholarly detective work, a fragmentary homiliary, containing exegetical homilies for the Sundays after Pentecost, came to light in the Somerset County Records Office in Taunton. The manuscript apparently dates from the middle years of the eleventh century; but questions of when and where and by whom the homiliary was composed can only be answered by close philological study of the Old English text itself. The present volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains a printed edition of this interesting text, and detailed philological analysis leads to the extraordinary hypothesis that the text may have been composed by someone whose native language was not English, and who was apparently unfamiliar with the mainstream of English homiletic composition, best illustrated in the work of AElfric. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications in all branches of Anglo-Saxon studies rounds off the book.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Anglo-Saxon England
Release date:	June 2005
First published:	2004
Editors:	Michael Lapidge • Malcolm Godden • Simon Keynes
Dimensions:	238 x 161 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	404
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-84905-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Promotions
LSN:	0-521-84905-5
Barcode:	9780521849050

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