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THE OLD ENGLISH BENEDICTINE OFFICE, CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, MS 190, AND THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ÆLFRIC AND WULFSTAN: A RECONSIDERATION by PETER CLEMOES is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
It has been accepted that the prose portions of The Old English Benedictine Office are the work of Wulfstan ever since Feiler ascribed them to him 1 ). In his recent edition of the Office 2 ) Mr J. M. Ure has introduced a new theory about the way in which Wulfstan came to write these passages. In the first place he claims that Wulfstan gave them their present form by rewriting an already existing vernacular text. In the second place he suggests that the author of this earlier text may well have been ^Elfric. If such a text ever existed, it is now lost. Ure's case for both hypotheses rests solely on his interpretation of the stylistic and linguistic evidence provided by the Office's prose passages themselves, "taken", so far as the second hypothesis is concerned, "in conjunction with the intrinsic probabilities of the case" 8 ). Professor Jost has expressed the opinion that the stylistic and linguistic evidence is insufficient to support either hypothesis 4 ). I propose to examine now what "intrinsic probabilities" there are that 1
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- Author
- PETER CLEMOES
- Published
- 1960
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)