Aelfric's Catholic Homilies: The First Series Text - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0197224180 ISBN 13 : 9780197224182

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1867

Synopsis

This is one of the major works of Anglo-Saxon prose, written by one of the foremost scholars of the time and the acknowledged master of prose style. The text is based on the Royal manuscript, which represents the earliest version of the text, and has corrections and annotation in Aelfric's own hand. All the early alterations to the Royal manuscript (amounting to more than a thousand) and all substantive readings from other manuscripts, many of which reflect Aelfric's own revision, are recorded in the apparatus. A lengthy introduction describes all the manuscripts and analyses in detail Aelfric's development of the text, the nature of his revision, and the distribution and copying of the text over the subsequent two centuries.

A subsequent volume, currently in preparation by M.R. Godden, will provide commentary and glossary for this text and for the Second Series which was edited by Professor Godden and published by the Early English Text Society (Supplementary Series, 5) in 1979.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

this sure-handed treatment of Aelfric's manuscripts is about as close as the field will ever get to verifiable knowledge about textual relations ... At long last, then, Anglo-Saxon studies has an authoritative edition of The First Series which ... will assist the understanding of a major work by arguably the major vernacular prose writer of the period. (Paul E.Szarmach, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jan 2001)

The publication of Peter Clemoes's edition of the First Series of Catholic Homilies is a major event in Anglo-Saxon scholarship and, in its mastery of the complexities of manuscript relationships achieved through minute attention to the hundreds of textual details which constitute the evidence, stands as a fitting monument to a career much concerned with AElfric. (Joyce Hill, The Review of English Studies)

Clemoes's pioneering work in discerning and describing the stages of development of AElfric's First Series homilies, presented in great detail in the introduction to this edition (written in 1965), provides the groundwork for our understanding of AElfric's literary programme./ ... the reader of Clemoes's introduction is struck not so much with its age as with the overwhelming amount of work and insight that went into its argument, the importance of which remains undiminished./ For the first time we have an edition that carefully presents AElfric's First Series sermons in their entirety, while explaining and illustrating in humbling detail their intricate development as a series. Its usefulness will be appreciated.../ M. Bradford Bedingfield, Oxford, Medium Aevum, vol 68, no 1

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1867
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0197224180
• ISBN 13: 9780197224182
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 588
• Éditeur: Clemoes Peter
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Oxford University Press; https://corp.oup.com/; ; WMF Platz 1; Geislingen/Steige; Baden-W?rttemberg; 73312; Allemagne