The Compilation of the Vercelli Book

The Compilation of the Vercelli Book
Title The Compilation of the Vercelli Book PDF eBook
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Pages 19
Release 1973
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The Elene of Cynewulf

The Elene of Cynewulf
Title The Elene of Cynewulf PDF eBook
Author Cynewulf
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Pages 214
Release 1904
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Preaching the Converted

Preaching the Converted
Title Preaching the Converted PDF eBook
Author Samantha Zacher
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 1106
Release 2009-05-16
Genre Poetry
ISBN 144269131X

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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 associated with vernacular verse. The study argues that the dazzling textual complexity of these homilies rivals the most accomplished examples of Old English poetry. Highlighting the use of word play, verbal and structural repetition, elaborate catalogues, and figurative language, Samantha Zacher's study of the Vercelli Book fills a gap in the history of English preaching by foregrounding the significance of these prose homilies as an intermediary form. Also analyzing the Latin and vernacular sources behind the Vercelli texts to reveal the theological and formal interests informing the collection as a whole, Preaching the Converted is a rigorous examination of Old English homiletic rhetoric and poetics.

New Readings in the Vercelli Book

New Readings in the Vercelli Book
Title New Readings in the Vercelli Book PDF eBook
Author Andy Orchard
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 441
Release 2009-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 080209869X

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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.

New Readings in the Vercelli Book

New Readings in the Vercelli Book
Title New Readings in the Vercelli Book PDF eBook
Author Samantha Zacher
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 464
Release 2009-12-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1442659610

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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.

The Vercelli Book Homilies

The Vercelli Book Homilies
Title The Vercelli Book Homilies PDF eBook
Author Lewis E. Nicholson
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Pages 192
Release 1991
Genre Literary Criticism
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The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 4 Volume Set

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 4 Volume Set
Title The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 4 Volume Set PDF eBook
Author Sian Echard
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 2102
Release 2017-08-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1118396987

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The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain vereint erstmals wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu Multilingualität und Interkulturalität im mittelalterlichen Britannien und bietet mehr als 600 fundierte Einträge zu Schlüsselpersonen, Zusammenhängen und Einflüssen in der Literatur vom fünften bis sechzehnten Jahrhundert. - Einzigartiger multilingualer, interkultureller Ansatz und die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse. Das gesamte Mittelalter und die Bandbreite literarischer Sprachen werden abgedeckt. - Über 600 fundierte, verständliche Einträge zu Schlüsselpersonen, Texten, kritischen Debatten, Methoden, kulturellen Zusammenhängen sowie verwandte Terminologie. - Repräsentiert die gesamte Literatur der Britischen Inseln, einschließlich Alt- und Mittelenglisch, das frühe Schottland, die Anglonormannen, Nordisch, Latein und Französisch in Britannien, die keltische Literatur in Wales, Irland, Schottland und Cornwall. - Beeindruckende chronologische Darstellung, von der Invasion der Sachsen bis zum 5. Jahrhundert und weiter bis zum Übergang zur frühen Moderne im 16. Jahrhundert. - Beleuchtet die Überbleibsel mittelalterlicher britischer Literatur, darunter auch Manuskripte und frühe Drucke, literarische Stätten und Zusammenhänge in puncto Herstellung, Leistung und Rezeption sowie erzählerische Transformation und intertextuelle Verbindungen in dieser Zeit.