Digitizing the Old English Anonymous and Wulfstanian Homilies through the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English (ECHOE) Project

Abstract This article first outlines the challenges involved in editing of Old English anonymous and Wulfstanian homilies before introducing Electronic Corpus Anonymous Homilies ( ECHOE ) project. new initiative at University Göttingen reverses traditional collation texts instead celebrates book-historical significance every individual manuscript version, its textual palaeographical idiosyncrasies, revisional layers up through c. 1200 AD. The project provides forms display to expose complex interversional network representations, develops a range digital tools facilitate identification swift comparison related passages. It includes facsimiles, rhetorical version profiles, Latin sources for each homily, creating opportunities unprecedented research on transmission, composition, variation, performance fluid preaching text.