Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation

Winfried Rudolf, Ph.D. (2005), Jena University, is Professor of Medieval English Studies at Göttingen University. He has published widely on Old English homilies and their Latin sources and is principal investigator of the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English project. Susan Irvine, DPhil (1987), Oxford University, has been Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London since 2013. She has published widely on Old English poetry and prose, including editions of homilies and of the Old English Boethius.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and PlatesAbbreviations and Short TitlesNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionWinfried Rudolf and Susan Irvine2 The Corpus of Old English Anonymous HomiliesDonald G. Scragg3 Sourcing Old English Anonymous Homilies: The Pioneers (Max Förster, Rudolph Willard, and J. E. Cross)Charles D. Wright4 The Sources of the Pembroke 25 HomiliaryThomas N. Hall5 New Manuscript Witnesses to the Homiliary of AngersAidan Conti, Stephen Pelle, and Winfried Rudolf6 The Lenten Tithe of Days: An Old English Theme and Its Treatment and Sources in Three Anonymous Homilies (Irvine V, Napier LV, and Blickling III)Robert Getz7 A New Analogue for Some Exegetical Motifs in Assmann Homily XIIIEsther Lemmerz8 The Sources and Composition of Two Old English Sunday Letter HomiliesStephen Pelle9 Columbanus’s De mundi transitu in Early Medieval England: A New Source for an Old English Homily (Irvine VII) in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 343Thijs Porck10 Jews and Judaizing as Pathologies in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination: Toward a Theory of Early Somatic Anti-JudaismSamantha Zacher11 The Pains and Pleasures of Vercelli Homily IX and the Delights of Textual TransmissionJonathan Wilcox12 The Resonances and Roles of Vercelli Homily X in Multiple ManuscriptsRobert K. UpchurchBibliographyIndexes