this sure-handed treatment of Aelfric's manuscripts is about as
close as the field will ever get to verifiable knowledge about
textual relations ... At long last, then, Anglo-Saxon studies has
an authoritative edition of The First Series which ... will assist
the understanding of a major work by arguably the major vernacular
prose writer of the period.
*Paul E.Szarmach, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jan
2001*
The publication of Peter Clemoes's edition of the First Series of
Catholic Homilies is a major event in Anglo-Saxon scholarship and,
in its mastery of the complexities of manuscript relationships
achieved through minute attention to the hundreds of textual
details which constitute the evidence, stands as a fitting monument
to a career much concerned with AElfric.
*Joyce Hill, The Review of English Studies*
Clemoes's pioneering work in discerning and describing the stages
of development of AElfric's First Series homilies, presented in
great detail in the introduction to this edition (written in 1965),
provides the groundwork for our understanding of AElfric's literary
programme./ ... the reader of Clemoes's introduction is struck not
so much with its age as with the overwhelming amount of work and
insight that went into its argument, the importance of which
remains undiminished./ For the first time we have an edition that
carefully presents AElfric's First Series sermons in their
entirety, while explaining and illustrating in humbling detail
their intricate development as a series. Its usefulness will be
appreciated.../ M. Bradford Bedingfield, Oxford, Medium Aevum, vol
68, no 1
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