The present volume contains book ii of Gregory the Great's Homilies on the Gospels, completing the set. It follows the pattern of volume i, published in 2005. It contains the Latin text with French translation, introduction and notes, and follows, in all essentials, as did volume i, the text and chronology established by the late Raymond Étaix in his landmark critical edition of 1999. His major achievement was the discovery that the manuscript tradition showed the existence of the text in two states, both attributed to Gregory himself, one before, the other after, a revision. Important though comparatively minor changes to Étaix's conclusions were detailed in Bruno Judic's introduction to the first volume. In a much shorter introduction to the present volume Judic explains the further changes adopted here. Étaix had left several questions unresolved and some datings of individual homilies uncertain. An important study by J.-P. Bouhot, published in 2007, has further illuminated the emergence and nature of the revised state of the collection, and allowed some uncertain dates to be determined. Judic rightly adopts the conclusions of Bouhot's study which, he says, ‘explains perfectly the nature of the collection and the history of the textual tradition, as well as giving clues to the dating of each homily’. A list of changes to book i necessitated by Bouhot's reconstruction of the nature of the collection is included, as well as a very useful chronological table for all the homilies contained in both books. The two volumes taken together bring Étaix's monumental edition to a fitting – and probably definitive – close, as well as providing a clear and faithful translation.