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These included: Gregory the Great's Cura Pastoralis, a manual for priests on how to conduct their duties, which became the Hierdeboc ('Shepherd-book') [66] in Old English; Boethius' De Consolatione philosophiae (the Froforboc or 'book of consolation'); [67] and the Soliloquia of Saint Augustine (known in Old English as the Blostman or 'blooms ...
It presents editions of texts originally written in medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, Old English, and the languages of the medieval Iberian Peninsula, with facing-page translations into modern English. The aim is to make such texts accessible to English-speaking scholars and general readers.
The Early English Text Society (EETS) is a text publication society founded in 1864 which is dedicated to the editing and publication of early English texts, especially those only available in manuscript. Most of its volumes contain editions of Middle English or Old English texts.
The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle [1]. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.. The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the ninth century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of King Alfred the Great (r. 871–899).
The history of Old English can be subdivided into: Prehistoric Old English (c. 450–650); for this period, Old English is mostly a reconstructed language as no literary witnesses survive (with the exception of limited epigraphic evidence). This language, or closely related group of dialects, spoken by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, and pre ...
Little is known about the origin of the homilies or their intended audience. In the assessment of D. G. Scragg, the manuscript is in origin a collection, put together, perhaps over a period of time, from a number of sources ... the scribes took care to put together a book which followed a preconceived design, following the chronology of the church year, and they perhaps took individual items ...
This article gives a chronological list of years in literature, with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events.The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century.
The Old English version of Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people (1890–1898). [402] A version of Ecclesiastical history of the English people by Bede, edited with a translation and introduction by Thomas Miller. Published for Early English Text Society, Original series, 95, 96, 110, 111.