Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/blicklinghomili00morrgoogThe Blickling Homilies, a recently-published book of great importance. It is not a homogeneous work, but a motley collection of sermons of various age and quality. Some of the later sermons are not so very different from those of Ælfric; but these are not the ones that give the book its character. The older sort have very distinct characteristics of their own, and they furnish a deep background to the Homilies of Ælfric. They are plainly of the age before the great Church reform of the tenth century, when the line was very dimly drawn between canonical and uncanonical, and when quotations, legends, and arguments were admissible which now surprise us in a sermon. Indeed, one can hardly escape the surmise that the elder discourses may come down from some time, and perhaps rather an early time, in the ninth century. One of the sermons bears the date of 971 imbedded in its context; and this, which is probably the lowest date of the book, is twenty years before the <a href="https://librivox.org/the-homilies-of-the-anglo-saxon-church-by-aelfric-of-eynsham/">Homilies of Ælfric</a> appeared. (Summary by John Earle)
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Keywords that describe the book: middle ages, homilies, medieval church
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