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Description: | This manuscript is written by several scribes, two of whom almost certainly worked at Exeter Cathedral while Leofric was bishop (1046-72) and it was probably given to the cathedral by him. Aelfric (c.955-1020) was a monk of Winchester, and later abbot of Eynsham, near Oxford. He wrote these homilies probably c. 990-993; they are intended both as a series of sermons for feast days throughout the year, but also as a survey of biblical and ecclesiastical history. This first homily concerns the Creation, the Fall, the Tower of Babel, Noah and the Flood, and so on. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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