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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orchard, Andy, editor.

Zacher, Samantha, editor.

Series:

Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.

Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leone, di Vercelli, approximately 965-1026.

Vercelli book.

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Criticism, Textual.

English literature.

Local Subjects:

Leone, di Vercelli, approximately 965-1026.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 consensus concerning the original purpose of the compiler.New Readings in the Vercelli Book addresses central questions concerning the manuscript's intended use, mode of compilation, and purpose, and offers a variety of approaches on such topics as orthography, style, genre, theme, and source-study. The contributors include some of the foremost Vercelli experts, as well as the two most recent editors of the homilies. The remarkable essays in this volume offer the first sustained literary analysis of both the poetry and prose texts of the Vercelli Book, providing important new perspectives on a dynamic and valuable historical document.

Contents:

The Vercelli prose and Anglo-Saxon literary history / Paul E. Szarmach

Studies in the language of copyists of the Vercelli homilies / Donald G. Scragg

The portents at Christ's birth in Vercelli homilies V and VI : some analogues from medieval sermons and Biblical commentaries / Thomas N. Hall

The source of Vercelli VII : an address to women / Samantha Zacher

Vercelli homily XV and The apocalypse of Thomas / Charles D. Wright

The 'homiletics' of the Vercelli book poems : the case of Homiletic fragment I / Jonathan T. Randle

The dream of the rood : cross-references / Andy Orchard

Vercelli homilies XIX-XXI, the Ascension Day homily in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162, and the catechetical tradition from Augustine to Wulfstan / Michael Fox

The reburial of the Cross in the Old English Elene / Manish Sharma

The journey motif in the poems of the Vercelli book / Patrick McBrine

The Vercelli book and its texts : a guide to scholarship / Paul G. Remley.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-5961-0

1-4426-5733-2

OCLC:

1076415717