Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- I.33 A Layman Grants Land to His Son-in-Law, Who Sells It to the Bishop ofSelsey for Silver and a Horse
- I.34 The Monastic Agreement of the Monks and Nuns of the English Nation(Regularis concordia)
- I.35 Literary Texts Associated with St Swithun
- I.36 Æthelweard, Chronicle
- I.37 A Treaty between King Æthelred II (‘the Unready’) and Three VikingLeaders
- I.38 Ælfric of Eynsham, Preface to the First Series of CatholicHomilies
- I.39 Ælfric of Eynsham and His School, Educational Writings
- I.40 Saints’ Lives from around the Millennium
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
I.38 - Ælfric of Eynsham, Preface to the First Series of CatholicHomilies
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Fifth Century
- Sixth Century
- Seventh Century
- Eighth Century
- Ninth Century
- Tenth Century
- I.33 A Layman Grants Land to His Son-in-Law, Who Sells It to the Bishop ofSelsey for Silver and a Horse
- I.34 The Monastic Agreement of the Monks and Nuns of the English Nation(Regularis concordia)
- I.35 Literary Texts Associated with St Swithun
- I.36 Æthelweard, Chronicle
- I.37 A Treaty between King Æthelred II (‘the Unready’) and Three VikingLeaders
- I.38 Ælfric of Eynsham, Preface to the First Series of CatholicHomilies
- I.39 Ælfric of Eynsham and His School, Educational Writings
- I.40 Saints’ Lives from around the Millennium
- Eleventh Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume I
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
Ælfric, abbot of Eynsham, wrote a number of important works in both Latin and Old English. Here he writes a Latin preface for his first series of forty Catholic homilies in Old English which were intended to be read aloud to the congregation or read privately by the laity. He dedicates the work to Sigeric of Canterbury, explaining that he is basing the homilies on the works of the Church Fathers and more recent Latin theologians from the Continent, and that he believes in the need for Latin works to be translated into English. Ælfric makes use of the modesty topos in his elegant preface.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 401 - 405Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024