Contents

pp v-vii

Preface

pp viii-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xii

Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiii

Sigla for Cited Ælfrician Manuscripts

pp xiv-xv

Dates for Cited Ælfrician Works

pp xvi-xix

Editorial Conventions

pp xx-xxi

Conventions Used in the Commentaries

pp xxii-xxii

Homilies - The Proper of the Season

pp 1-2

1 - Christmas: Sermo in natale Domini et de ratione anime (‘A Sermon on the Lord's Nativity and the Nature of the Soul’)

pp 3-104

2 - Christmas: In natali Domini (‘On the Lord's Nativity’)

pp 105-208

3 - Friday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent: Erat quidam languens Lazarus (‘There was a certain sick man, Lazarus’ [John 11.1–45])

pp 209-292

4 - Friday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent: Collegerunt ergo pontifices (‘The Chief Priests Therefore Gathered’ [John 11.47–54])

pp 293-322

5 - Third Sunday after Easter: Modicum et iam non uidebitis me (‘A Little While and then You Will Not See Me’ [John 16.16–22])

pp 323-352

6 - Third Sunday after Easter: Be ðam Seofanfealdan Ungifa (‘Concerning the Sevenfold Evil Gifts’)

pp 353-372

Homilies - The Proper of the Saints

pp 373-374

7 - Assumption of Mary (15 August): De sancta uirginitate, uel de tribus ordinibus castitatis (‘Concerning Holy Virginity, or Concerning the Three Orders of Chastity’)

pp 375-422

8 - Nativity of Mary (8 September): Natiuitas sanctae Mariae uirginis (‘The Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary’)

pp 423-485

Ælfrician Homilies and Varia: Editions, Translations, and Commentary: Volume II

pp 485-486

Homilies - The Common of the Saints

pp 487-488

9 - A Confessor: Sermo in natale unius confessoris (‘A Sermon for the Feast-day of a Confessor’)

pp 489-530

10 - Dedication of a Church: Sermo in dedicatione aecclesiae (‘A Sermon for the Dedication of a Church’)

pp 531-582

Homilies - Unspecified Occasions

pp 583-584

11 - Esto consentiens aduersario (‘Be in Agreement with Your Adversary’ [Matthew 5.25])

pp 585-628

12 - Menn Behofiað Godre Lare (‘People Need Good Teaching’)

pp 629-678

13 - De uirginitate (‘Concerning Virginity’)

pp 679-706

14 - De creatore et creatura (‘Concerning the Creator and Creation’)

pp 707-752

15 - De sex etatibus huius seculi (‘Concerning the Six Ages of the World’)

pp 753-784

Varia

pp 785-786