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Article: Old English Homilies from MS Bodley 343.
- Article from:
- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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Edited by Susan Irvine. EETS, original series, 302. Oxford U. Press, 1993. Pp. lxxviii 242. $36.00.
Susan Irvine here edits literature which some might consider unglamorous: seven Old English homilies from MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 343. The manuscript was copied in the second half of the twelfth century and contains a substantial Old English homiletic collection. These homilies pass on the traditional learning of the Christian church drawing almost wholly on pre-existing Latin writings. The context in which they were performed is no longer recoverable: presumably they were intended for preaching, but in what precise liturgical context and whether to the ...