Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ælfric’s life and works
* Features the collected works of Ælfric, in both English translation and the original Old English
* Concise introductions to the major works
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables
* Includes Ælfric’s rare treatises, recently translated by Brandon W. Hawk
* Provides a special dual English and Old English text of ‘Homilies’, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph — ideal for students
* Features a bonus biography — discover Ælfric’s medieval world
CONTENTS:
The Translations
The Homilies (tr. Benjamin Thorpe)
Lives of Saints (tr. Walter W. Skeat)
On False Gods (Anonymous tr.)
Life of Saint Edmund, King and Martyr (Anonymous tr.)
Sermon on Judith (tr. Brandon W. Hawk)
Preface to the ‘Hexateuch’ (tr. Brandon W. Hawk)
The Hexateuch (tr. Richard Challoner,)
A Treatise on the Old and New Testaments (tr. Brandon W. Hawk)
The Original Text
The Homilies (Old English Text)
The Dual Text
The Homilies (Old English and Modern English Text)
The Biography
Ælfric (1900) by William Hunt
