New Latin Contexts for Old English Homilies - Editions and Studies of Ten Sources and Analogues

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

About the author

Stephen Pelle is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto, and co-editor of the Dictionary of Old English. The author of numerous essays in various collections and articles in Anglia, Gripla, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Medieval Sermon Studies, and Traditio, among other journals, he is co-editor (with Brigitte Bulitta, Robert Getz, and Katja Schmidt) of a forthcoming collection of essays dealing with Old English and Old High German lexicography, glossography, and related topics

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Pelle
• Assisted by: Stephen Pelle (Editor)
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2023
• EAN: 9780888442338
• ISBN: 978-0-88844-233-8
• No. of pages: 525
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 284 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 957 g
• Series: Studies and Texts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity