New Readings in the Vercelli Book /

New Readings in the Vercelli Book / / ed. by Samantha Zacher, Andy Orchard.

The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry in the English language. The manuscript's combination of poetry and homiletic prose has generated intense scholarly debate, and there is no cons...

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MitwirkendeR:
Butler, Emily,
Fox, Michael,
Hall, Thomas N.,
McBrine, Patrick,
Orchard, Andy,
Randle, Jonathan T.,
Remley, Paul G.,
Scragg, Donald G.,
Sharma, Manish,
Szarmach, Paul E.,
Wright, Charles D.,
Zacher, Samantha,
HerausgeberIn:
Orchard, Andy,
Zacher, Samantha,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2009
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The Vercelli Prose and Anglo-Saxon Literary History
  • Studies in the Language of Copyists of the Vercelli Homilies
  • The Portents at Christ's Birth in Vercelli Homilies V and VI: Some Analogues from Medieval Sermons and Biblical Commentaries
  • The Source of Vercelli VII: An Address to Women
  • Vercelli Homily XV and The Apocalypse of Thomas
  • The 'Homiletics' of the Vercelli Book Poems: The Case of Homiletic Fragment I
  • The Dream of the Rood: Cross-References
  • Vercelli Homilies XIX-XXI, the Ascension Day Homily in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162, and the Catechetical Tradition from Augustine to Wulfstan
  • The Reburial of the Cross in the Old English Elene
  • The Journey Motif in the Poems of the Vercelli Book
  • The Vercelli Book and Its Texts: A Guide to Scholarship
  • Index of Manuscripts
  • General Index
  • Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series

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