Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Sigla codicum xi
6. Introduction 1
7. TEXT ONE. A Christmas Homily from the Bavarian Homiliary (BH I.2) 5
8. TEXTS TWO AND THREE. Carolingian Sermons on the Miracles at Christ’s Birth 61
9. TEXTS FOUR AND FIVE. Hiberno-Latin Christmas Homilies 93
10. TEXTS SIX AND SEVEN. Eschatological Sermons Included in Some Manuscripts of the Homiliaries of Angers and Saint-Père de Chartres 164
11. TEXT EIGHT. A Sermon Related to an Early Redaction of the Visio Pauli (Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, 27, fols. 104v–106v) 235
12. TEXT NINE. A Doomsday Sermon from a Carolingian Priest’s Handbook (Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, 288, fols. 38r–39v) 275
13. TEXT TEN. The Three Utterances of the Soul: Recension IV 320
14. Conclusions 352
15. Appendix One. The Admont Christmas Homily: A Homily Related to Texts 1 and 5 357
16. Appendix Two. Latin Analogues for Middle Irish and Middle High German Lists of Miracles at Christ’s Birth 381
17. Appendix Three. A Vision of a Monk of Rome: A Latin Vision of the Otherworld and Its Middle English Descendants 416
18. Bibliography 454
19. Index of Manuscripts 490
20. Index of Old English Homilies by DOE Short Title 494
21. General Index 496