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Stephen Pelle (éd.), New Latin Contexts for Old English Homilies: Editions and Studies of Ten Sources and Analogues, Turnhout, 2024.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Studies and Texts, 233
xii-504 pages
ISBN : 978-0-88844-233-8
120 €

This book sheds new light on the Latin background of various Old English homilies, and of certain homilies from related vernacular traditions. Two broad themes are treated, the Nativity of Christ and Christian eschatology; the volume contains five Latin texts dealing with each theme. Critical editions, full English translations, and detailed introductions and commentaries are included, as well as case studies that demonstrate the relevance of each text to one or more homilies written in Old English, and, in a few cases, early Middle English and Old Norse. While the volume is intended for scholars of early English preaching, many of the texts hold considerable intrinsic interest and should have general appeal for medievalists, students of preaching, and those working on the transmission of biblical apocrypha in the Latin West.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Sigla codicum
Introduction

TEXT ONE
A Christmas Homily from the Bavarian Homiliary (BH I.2)

TEXTS TWO AND THREE
Carolingian Sermons on the Miracles at Christ's Birth

TEXTS FOUR AND FIVE
Hiberno-Latin Christmas Homilies

TEXTS SIX AND SEVEN
Eschatological Sermons Included in Some Manuscripts of the Homiliaries of Angers and Saint-Père de Chartres

TEXT EIGHT
A Sermon Related to an Early Redaction of the Visio Pauli (Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, 27, fols. 104v–106v)

TEXT NINE
A Doomsday Sermon from a Carolingian Priest's Handbook (Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, 288, fols. 38r–39v)

TEXT TEN
The Three Utterances of the Soul: Recension IV

Conclusions

Appendix 1: A Christmas Homily Related to Texts 1 and 5
Appendix 2: Latin Analogues for Middle Irish and Middle High German Lists
of Miracles at Christ's Birth
Appendix 3: A Latin Vision of the Otherworld and Its Middle English
Descendants
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
Index of DOE Short Titles of Old English Homilies Cited or Discussed
General Index

Source : Brepols