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Note publique d'information : The quarter-century that has passed since Paul Szarmach’s and Bernard Huppé’s groundbreaking
The Old English Homily and its Backgrounds (1978) has seen staggering changes in the
field of Anglo-Saxon homiletics. Primary materials have become accessible to scholars
in unprecedented levels, whether digitally or through new critical editions, and these
have generated in turn a flood of secondary scholarship. The articles in this volume
showcase and build on these developments. The first five essays consider various contexts
of and infuences on Anglo-Saxon homilies: patristic and early medieval Latin sources,
continental homiliaries and preaching practices, traditions of Old Testament interpretation
and adaptation, and the liturgical setting of preaching texts. Six studies then turn
to the sermons themselves, examining style and rhetoric in the Vercelli homilies,
the codicology of the Blickling Book, sanctorale and temporale in the works of Ælfric,
and the challenges posed by Wulfstan’s self-referential corpus. Finally, the last
entries take us past the Conquest to discuss the re-use of homiletic material in England
and its environs from the eleventh to eighteenth century. Together these articles
offer medieval scholars a new Old English Homily, one that serves both as an introduction
to key figures and issues in the field and as a model of studies for the next quarter-century.
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