Description: Ælfric's Catholic Homilies convey mainstream Christian thought at the turn of the millennium. The first series draws on the works of Augustine and Bede, among others, to create forty sermons for use throughout the year. This is the first complete translation of the Catholic Homilies since 1844, presented alongside the newly edited Old English text.
Brief description: Roy M. Liuzza is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Review Quotes: Another hugely useful volume from the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library...makes superb use of the best scholarship on Ælfric to shape an efficient and appealing presentation of the first homiletic cycle created by the most prolific writer of Old English. Liuzza's translation is accurate and readable and in the process broadly recreates the style of Ælfric...making a voice that once sounded loudly in tenth- and eleventh-century England broadly accessible to a twenty-first century audience.--Jonathan Wilcox "Medieval Review" (10/19/2025 12:00:00 AM)