The Blickling Concordance A Lexicon to The Blickling Homilies

The Blickling Homilies are a collection of Anglo Saxon documents of quite exceptional scholarly importance. Professor Kelly has compiled a detailed concordance to the Homilies which is not only a key to understanding the originals but is also a unique vie

Richard J. Kelly is a professor and departmental head at the School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies at Kinki University in Osaka, which is one of Japan's largest universities. He specializes in the study of medieval literatures, in particular the Christian prose and poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period (mid 5th to early 12th century) and is an authority on the early English language. He is the author of a number of books as well as several academic papers in books and journals, ranging in content from medieval literature, culture, art and manuscripts to linguistics and textual transmission. His most significant works are Stone, Skin and Silver (1999), The Blickling Homilies (2003) and You're History! How People Make the Difference (2005)

An IntroductionPurpose and StuctureAnglo Saxon VerseLinguistic and Stylistic FeaturesDialectsThe ConcordanceGlossary