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Ælfric's Mark, Other Things, and Apostolic Authority

Ælfric's Mark, Other Things, and Apostolic Authority Ælfric's Mark, Other Things, and Apostolic Authority by Frederick M. Biggs LFRIC'S sermon on Mark in his Lives of Saints demonstrates strikingly that even after most if not all of the sources for a work in this genre have been identified, it is still necessary to consider why the author has brought together his material as he has.1 Here the sources for the two parts of the sermon are both so different and so differently handled that one might, were it not for the manuscript evidence and an explicit comment by Ælfric, consider it two works rather than one.2 Closely following the Passio Sancti Marci, its first 103 lines retell the saint's martyrdom; the remaining 122 take their structure and some of their content from Jerome's preface to his commentary on Matthew, yet change many individual details. Indeed, it has never 1 J. Heinrich Ott identified the main sources in Über die Quellen der Heiligenleben in Aelfrics Lives of Saints I (Ph.D. thesis, Halle-Wittenberg [Halle, 1892]), 40­44. Patrick H. Zettel notes that the Passio S. Marci, the source for the first part of this sermon, is item 46 of his reconstruction of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary; however, he does http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in Philology University of North Carolina Press

Ælfric's Mark, Other Things, and Apostolic Authority

Biggs, Frederick M.
Studies in Philology , Volume 104 (2) – Apr 18, 2007
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Ælfric's Mark, Other Things, and Apostolic Authority by Frederick M. Biggs LFRIC'S sermon on Mark in his Lives of Saints demonstrates strikingly that even after most if not all of the sources for a work in this genre have been identified, it is still necessary to consider why the author has brought together his material as he has.1 Here the sources for the two parts of the sermon are both so different and so differently handled that one might, were it not for the manuscript evidence and an explicit comment by Ælfric, consider it two works rather than one.2 Closely following the Passio Sancti Marci, its first 103 lines retell the saint's martyrdom; the remaining 122 take their structure and some of their content from Jerome's preface to his commentary on Matthew, yet change many individual details. Indeed, it has never 1 J. Heinrich Ott identified the main sources in Über die Quellen der Heiligenleben in Aelfrics Lives of Saints I (Ph.D. thesis, Halle-Wittenberg [Halle, 1892]), 40­44. Patrick H. Zettel notes that the Passio S. Marci, the source for the first part of this sermon, is item 46 of his reconstruction of the Cotton-Corpus Legendary; however, he does

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