Ælfric II | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Elmham | |
| Appointed | between 1023 and 1038 |
| Term ended | December 1038 |
| Predecessor | Ælfwine |
| Successor | Ælfric III |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | between 1023 and 1038 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | December 1038 |
| Denomination | Christian |
Ælfric II [lower-alpha 1] was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
Ælfric was consecrated between 1023 and 1038 and died in December 1038. [1]
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Ælfric of Eynsham was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian, Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist. In the view of Peter Hunter Blair, he was "a man comparable both in the quantity of his writings and in the quality of his mind even with Bede himself." According to Claudio Leonardi, he "represented the highest pinnacle of Benedictine reform and Anglo-Saxon literature".
The Old English poem Judith describes the beheading of Assyrian general Holofernes by Israelite Judith of Bethulia. It is found in the same manuscript as the heroic poem Beowulf, the Nowell Codex, dated ca. 975–1025. The Old English poem is one of many retellings of the Holofernes–Judith tale as it was found in the Book of Judith, still present in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian Bibles. Most notably, Ælfric of Eynsham, late 10th-century Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer, composed a homily of the tale.
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Ælfric is an Anglo-Saxon given name.
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Ælfric was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 178 is an English manuscript in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The codex consists of two parts which may have been together since the thirteenth century. The first part, pp. 1-270, contains homilies for general occasions (1-163) and for festivals (164-270) and was compiled in the early eleventh century and derived from Worcester. The second part, pp. 287-457, contains Latin and Old English versions of the Rule of Saint Benedict. Both parts were glossed by The Tremulous Hand of Worcester.
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 303 is a twelfth-century English manuscript in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The codex consists mostly of homilies, most of which derive from Ælfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies. The manuscript is especially notable since it contains part of Ælfric's Judith.
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| Preceded by Ælfwine | Bishop of Elmham c. 1030-1038 | Succeeded by Ælfric III |
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