Being a Set of Sermons on Saints' Days Formerly Observed by the English Church, Ed. from Manuscript Julius E. VII in the Cottonian Collection, with Various Readings from Other Manuscripts Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.), Walter William ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Excerpt from Aelfric's Lives of Saints: Being a Set of Sermons on Saint's Days Formerly Observed by the English Church We say nothing new in this book, because it has stood written down long since in Latin books, though lay-men knew it not.