"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 tec…
"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 tec…
New readings in the Vercelli book
by Zacher, Samantha, Orchard, Andy
fromToronto Anglo-Saxon series
New readings in the Vercelli book
by Zacher, Samantha, Orchard, Andy
fromToronto Anglo-Saxon series
"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…
New readings in the Vercelli book
by Zacher, Samantha, Orchard, Andy
fromToronto Anglo-Saxon series
