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The Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation offers important essays on the origins, textual transmission, and (re)use of early English preaching texts between the ninth and the late twelfth centuries. Associated with the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English project, these studies provide fresh insights into one of the most complex textual genres of early medieval literature. Contributions deal with the definition of the anonymous homiletic corpus in Old English, the history of scholarship on its Latin sources, and the important unedited Pembroke and Angers Latin homiliaries. They also include new source and manuscript identifications, and in-depth studies of a number of popular Old English homilies, their themes, revisions, and textual relations. Contributors are: Aidan Conti, Robert Getz, Thomas N. Hall, Susan Irvine, Esther Lemmerz, Stephen Pelle, Thijs Porck, Winfried Rudolf, Donald G. Scragg, Robert K. Upchurch, Jonathan Wilcox, Charles D. Wright, Samantha Zacher. See inside the book.

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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.

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