'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.
Author(s): Winfried Rudolf, Susan Irvine (eds.)
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, 25
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 420
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements vii
List of Illustrations and Tables viii
Abbreviations and Short Titles ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
1. Introduction / Winfried Rudolf and Susan Irvine 1
2. The Corpus of Old English Anonymous Homilies / Donald G. Scragg 16
3. Sourcing Old English Anonymous Homilies: The Pioneers (Max Förster, Rudolph Willard, and J. E. Cross) / Charles D. Wright 36
4. The Sources of the Pembroke 25 Homiliary / Thomas N. Hall 85
5. New Manuscript Witnesses to the Homiliary of Angers / Aidan Conti, Stephen Pelle, and Winfried Rudolf 137
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 164
7. A New Analogue for Some Exegetical Motifs in Assmann Homily XIII / Esther Lemmerz 187
8. The Sources and Composition of Two Old English Sunday Letter Homilies / Stephen Pelle 207
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 234
10. Jews and Judaizing as Pathologies in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination: Toward a Theory of Early Somatic Anti-Judaism / Samantha Zacher 257
11. The Pains and Pleasures of Vercelli Homily IX and the Delights of Textual Transmission / Jonathan Wilcox 287
12. The Resonances and Roles of Vercelli Homily X in Multiple Manuscripts / Robert K. Upchurch 312
Bibliography 337
Index of Manuscripts 388
Index of Latin and Old English Homilies and Sermons 391
Index of the Christian Calendar (Temporale) 395
General Index 396
