Article: Excerptiones de Prisciano: The Source for AElfric's Latin-Old English Grammar.(Book Review)

Article: Aelfric
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      689 words ... ... clear. In the second series Aelfric introduced such refinements ... poetry. Between 992 and 1002 Aelfric revised and expanded the Catholic ... students of the language: a grammar, a glossary, and the Colloquy ... between 1002 and 1005. In 1005 Aelfric became abbot of a new monastery ...

Encyclopedia entry: AELFRIC OF EYNSHAM
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      318 words ...AELFRIC OF EYNSHAM. [ c. 955– c. 1020], also Ælfric (pronounced ... the Old Testament, treatises, and letters, and for learners of Latin a grammar, glossary, and teaching dialogue. He used LATIN literary devices in his ...

AElfric.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 2000 ;     447 words ... ... homilies--designed for use as sermons by the preachers who were generally unable to read Latin. lfric was also the author of a grammar, a glossary, and a colloquy, which were for many years the standard texts for Latin study in English monasteries. Among ...

Article: AElfric's Exemplar of Amalarius: An Additional Witness.
ANQ;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... English homily for Septuagesima Sunday, AElfric of Eynsham (c. 955-c. 1010) adopted ... Forster 3). But to that part of his homily AElfric also appended a series of remarks on the ... forthcoming penitential season. True to habit, AElfric credits his source: "Sum wis lareow ...

Article: REINVENTING THE GOSPEL: AELFRIC AND THE LITURGY.(Critical ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... accompanied these rituals, in particular that of AElfric, reveals the remarkably pervasive influence ... passages of liturgical instruction provided by AElfric, this influence is evident more subtly throughout AElfric's treatment of biblical figures and events ...

Article: Mechthild Gretsch, AElfric and the Cult of Saints in Late ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Mechthild Gretsch, AElfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon ... sterling]. Mechthild Gretsch's study of AElfric and the cult of saints offers a fascinating insight into not only AElfric's technique as a hagiographer, but also ...

Article: AElfric, St Edmund, and St Edwold of Cerne.(Critical ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...At the end of his Life of St Edmund, AElfric comments on the number of English men ... deprived of God's holy ones.' (1) AElfric himself wrote few homilies for the feast ... and Edmund form only a meagre company) AElfric's limited selection is also conservative ...