Preaching the Converted : : The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies / / Samantha Zacher.

The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in the tenth century. Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of the book's prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques commonly...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Abbreviations --   |t List of Manuscripts Cited According to Scragg's Sigla --   |t List of Tables --   |t Preface --   |t 1. Locating the Vercelli Homilies: Their Place in the Book, and the Book in Its Place --   |t 2. Reinventing the Past: Originality and the Vercelli Homilies --   |t 3. Seeing Double: The Repetition of Themes and Text in the Vercelli Book --   |t 4. 'Where Are They Now?': The Sources and Techniques of Adaptation and Compilation in the Vercelli Book --   |t 5. The 'Body and Soul' of the Vercelli Book: The Heart of the Corpus --   |t 6. 'For the Sake of Beauty and Utility': The Place of Figurative Language in the Vercelli Homilies --   |t 7. At a Crossroads: Generic Ambiguity in the Guthlac Narrative of the Vercelli Book --   |t 8. Conclusion: Rhetorical Models and Modes of Style --   |t Appendix 1: The Contents of the Vercelli Homilies and Relevant Variant Texts --   |t Appendix 2: Divisions in the Vercelli Book --   |t Bibliography --   |t General Index --   |t Index of Passages Cited --   |t Backmatter 
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