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The writings of Aelfric of Eynsham (c.950-c.1010) are among the most important to survive from Anglo-Saxon England. He was shaped by 10th-century monastic reform, and his promotion of Old English was highly influential. His earliest known works, the Sermones Catholici (c.990-5), are adaptations of Latin texts rendered in Old English. The homilies draw on the gospels, saints' lives and other doctrinal themes, and were intended to be delivered over two years. The two-volume collection, first published between 1844 and 1846, contains transcriptions of the Old English texts with facing-page translations by Benjamin Thorpe (1781/2-1870). A well-respected scholar with a strong interest in promoting the study of Old English, Thorpe also produced an important edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the Rolls Series. Volume 1 contains the sermons for the first year.

Sermons, English (Old) --- Sermons, Medieval --- Anglo-Saxon sermons --- English sermons, Old --- Old English sermons --- Sermons, Anglo-Saxon --- Sermons, Old English --- English prose literature