He also considers the evidence from England in the time of Ælfric and Wulfstan, distinguishing a number of uses which Ælfric intended for his homiletic materials, but questioning whether users of Ælfric's work (Wulfstan perhaps among them) understood or accepted the basic homiletic practices that the abbot had in mind. First, he investigates the uses for which the two homilists prepared their sermons, analysing the homiliaries of the Carolingian church and its legislation concerning preaching and teaching, and showing that one should look not to the model of patristic preaching but to the development, in the place of exegetical preaching, of a vernacular catechetical office, the Prone. GATCH In Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England, Professor Gatch deals with two aspects of the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan that have been hitherto ignored by scholars of the period. He is the author of Death: Meaning and Mortality in Christian Thought and Contemporary Culture, and Loyalties and Traditions: Man and his World in Old English Literature. Is a member of the department of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
134 Bibliography 147 Notes 167 Indices 247 1. Wulfstan's Variations and Developments of the Antichrist Theme 105 PART FOUR Ælfric and Wulfstan in Historical Perspective 118 APPENDIX Ælfric's Excerpts from Julian of Toledo, 'Prognosticon Futuri Saeculi' 129 Hvnc sermonem ex mvltis excerpsimvs. Some General Reflections on Ælfric's Eschatology 102 10. Three Extended Eschatological Pieces by Ælfric 85 9. Ælfric on the Last Times and the Judgment 77 8. The Preaching Materials of Ælfric of Eynsham 40 PART THREE The Eschatology of Ælfric and Wulfstan 60 6. Wulfstan II of York 18 PART TWO The Uses of the Old English Sermons 24 4. Theological Tradition and Monastic Reform 4 2. Table of contents : Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations xi PART ONE Ælfric and Wulfstan: an Introduction 2 1.
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