Download or read book Aelfric's Catholic Homilies written by Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final volume in the Early English Text Society's edition of AElfric's Catholic Homilies, a set of preaching texts in two series composed in Old English around 900 for the use of preachers throughout England. This final volume gives an account of the origin, function, and dating of the Catholic Homilies and their Latin sources; a detailed commentary on all eighty homilies; and a glossary of all words occurring in the text.