The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

Name: The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Author: Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

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The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of Ælfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I.

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Julie Barkley, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2011-12-18

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Sermons, English (Old)

About the author

Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

950–1019

A leading voice of late Anglo-Saxon England, this monk and abbot wrote vivid homilies, saints’ lives, and teaching texts in Old English to make Christian learning easier to understand. His clear prose and practical style helped shape English religious writing for centuries.

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