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Ælfric's Grammar was the Old English best-seller of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Sisam notes, "no other book in Anglo-Saxon approaches [the Grammar] in the number of copies that survive" (301). We have fourteen complete or partial copies of the Grammar, along with two transcriptions of a fifteenth that has disappeared. In comparison, we have only six copies (including two fragments) of the Old English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, six copies of the West Saxon translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care, and, of course, only one Beowulf. In spite of the work's medieval popularity, modem Anglo-Saxon scholars have largely overlooked the Grammar. Scholarship on Ælfric's work instead concentrates primarily on the homilies; Wilcox, like most Ælfrician scholars, sees Ælfric primarily as a writer of homilies, introducing Ælfric as "the most important homilist in Anglo-Saxon England" (1) and stating, "At the heart of Ælfric's achievement is the writing of homilies" (15). To some extent, the lack of scholarly interest in the Grammar stems from the nature of the text; grammar textbooks do not always make fun reading. But scholars who ignore the Grammar are ne

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Author

Melinda Jill Menzer

Publisher

University of Texas at Austin

Published

1996

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction