- A
homily (from Gr**** ὁμιλία, homilía) is a
commentary that
follows a
reading of scripture,
giving the "public
explanation of a
sacred doctrine" or text...
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Grammarian (Alfricus Grammaticus), Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the
Homilist. In the view of
Peter Hunter Blair, he was "a man
comparable both in the...
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public preaching. One who
practices or
studies homiletics may be
called a
homilist, or more simply, a preacher. Homiletics, the art of preaching, studies...
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Retrieved 5
December 2022.
Whitelock "Note on the
Career of
Wulfstan the
Homilist" p. 464
Quoted in
Wormald "Wulfstan"
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography...
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Homilist and
Augustinian canon...
- the
Dominicans had come unprepared,
thinking a
Franciscan would be the
homilist. In this quandary, the head of the hermitage, who did not
think any of...
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posthumous re****tion as "victorious
because of God" (in the
words of the
homilist Ælfric of Eynsham). The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle abandoned its
usual terse...
- (known as the Witan) was
Wulfstan II,
Archbishop of York, a well-known
homilist. The
three latest codes from Æthelred's
reign seemed to have been drafted...
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Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel OSB (c. 770 – c. 840) was a
Benedictine monk of Saint-Mihiel
Abbey near Verdun. He was a
significant writer of
homilies and commentaries...
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respected writers of Anglo-Saxon prose, Ælfric and Wulfstan, were both
homilists.
Almost all
surviving poetry is
found in only one m****cript copy, but...
