New light on the textual history of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies 1.17
New light on the textual history of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies 1.17
Ælfric's homily for the second Sunday after Easter in the First Series of his Catholic Homilies (CH 1.17) survives in two versions, the later one augmented by a lengthy addition. This article attempts to explain the noticeable discrepancies between the two parts of the augmented homily in scale, style, purpose, and argumentative structure by relating them to the broader context of Ælfric's methods of augmentation elsewhere in the Catholic Homilies. Some of these features could be more easily accounted for if the later addition was originally an independent homily; the article identifies a possible 'missing link' supporting this hypothesis, an annotation in an early-thirteenth-century hand to the augmented text of CH 1.17 in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 302. It argues that the content of the annotation, which supplies an introductory passage for the second part of the homily, need not (as has previously been assumed) be contemporary with its hand; it may instead preserve an otherwise lost but authentic fragment of Ælfric's writing, deleted at the stage when the two homilies were combined.
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Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
1 February 2018
Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
Millett, Bella
(2018)
New light on the textual history of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies 1.17.
Review of English Studies, 69 (288), .
(doi:10.1093/res/hgx055).
Abstract
Ælfric's homily for the second Sunday after Easter in the First Series of his Catholic Homilies (CH 1.17) survives in two versions, the later one augmented by a lengthy addition. This article attempts to explain the noticeable discrepancies between the two parts of the augmented homily in scale, style, purpose, and argumentative structure by relating them to the broader context of Ælfric's methods of augmentation elsewhere in the Catholic Homilies. Some of these features could be more easily accounted for if the later addition was originally an independent homily; the article identifies a possible 'missing link' supporting this hypothesis, an annotation in an early-thirteenth-century hand to the augmented text of CH 1.17 in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 302. It argues that the content of the annotation, which supplies an introductory passage for the second part of the homily, need not (as has previously been assumed) be contemporary with its hand; it may instead preserve an otherwise lost but authentic fragment of Ælfric's writing, deleted at the stage when the two homilies were combined.
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