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Photolithograph of Blickling Homilies (Princeton, Scheide Library, MS 71), leaf 141. The Blickling homilies are a collection of anonymous homilies from Anglo-Saxon England. . They are written in Old English, and were written down at some point before the end of the tenth century, making them one of the oldest collections of sermons to survive from medieval England, the other main witness being ...
The Trinity Homilies are a collection of 36 homilies found in MS Trinity 335 (B.14.52), held in Trinity College, Cambridge.Produced probably early in the thirteenth century in the Early Middle English period, the collection is of great linguistic importance in establishing the development of the English language, since it preserves a number of Old English forms and gives evidence of the ...
Homily. A homily (from Greek ὁμιλία, homilía) is a commentary that follows a reading of scripture, [1] giving the "public explanation of a sacred doctrine" or text. The works of Origen [2] and John Chrysostom (known as Paschal Homily) [3] are considered exemplary forms of Christian homily. [4]
Launched. April 1, 1998. The Daily Howler is an American political blog written by Bob Somerby. [1] It was perhaps the first major political blog, [2] started in 1998. The style is by turns earnest and sarcastic. Somerby criticizes what he considers the media's frequently biased or lazy coverage. In his view, the media frequently latch on to a ...
Homilies on Leviticus. Shelf of the works of Origen in Latin translation. Imaginary portrait of Origen (Guillaume Chaudière, 1584) Homilies on Leviticus are homilies that were delivered by Origen in Alexandria near the end of his life, over a course of three years between 238 and 244. They were translated into Latin by Rufinus .
e. The Books of Homilies (1547, 1562, and 1571) are two books together containing thirty-three sermons developing the authorized reformed doctrines of the Church of England in depth and detail, as appointed for use in the 35th Article of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. The longer title of the collection is Certain Sermons or Homilies ...
The Lambeth Homilies are a collection of homilies found in a manuscript (MS Lambeth 487) in Lambeth Palace Library, London. The collection contains seventeen sermons and is notable for being one of the latest examples of Old English , written as it was c. 1200, well into the period of Middle English .
The Vercelli homilies are a collection of twenty-three prose entries within the Vercelli book and exist as an important example of Old English prose structure, owing to the predominance of poetry within the pool of extant Old English literature. In keeping with the origins of the Vercelli manuscript in general, little is known about the exact ...