Old English Homily and Its Background

Paul E. Szarmach is Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He is the editor of Aspects of Medieval Culture in the Middle Ages; Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe; Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, and co-author (with Bernard F. Huppe) of Old English Homily and Its Background, all published by SUNY Press. He is also the editor of the SUNY series in Medieval Studies. Bernard F. Huppé is Professor of English and Chairman of the department at Harpur College of the State University of New York. He has taught at New York University, at Princeton, and has been Fulbright lecturer at the university of Vienna. Author of many articles on medieval subjects, Dr. Huppé is the author of Doctrine and Poetry (1959); and co-author of Logic and Language (1956), Piers Plowman and Scriptural Tradition (1951), and Fruyt and Chaf (1963).

"There is nothing like this in Old English critical literature … Successfully contributes to an appreciative understanding of the Old English homily and the considerable achievement of Aelfric … An essential work." — CHOICE

• Abbreviations and Short TitlesIntroductionChurch and Society in the Age of AelfricP. A. StaffordThe Achievement of Aelfric and His Colleagues in European PerspectiveMilton McC. Gatch Paul the Deacon's Patristic AnthologyCyril L. SmetanaAelfric and the Vernacular Prose TraditionMalcolm GoddenAlfred and Aelfric: a Study of Two PrefacesBernard F. HuppéThe Poetic Content of the Revival HomilyD. R. LetsonMethodical Abbreviation: A Study in Aelfric's Friday Homilies for LentAnn Eljenholm NicholsVerbal Aspect as a Narrative Structure in Aelfric's Lives of SaintsKeith A. TandySermo Lupi and the Moral Purpose of RhetoricRaachel JurovicsThemes and Techniques in the Blickling Lenten HomiliesMarcia A. DalbeyThe Vercelli Homilies: Style and StructurePaul E. Szarmach