New readings in the Vercelli bookedited by Samantha Zacher and Andy Orchard.

New readings in the Vercelli bookedited by Samantha Zacher and Andy Orchard. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. (Toronto, Ont. : Scholars Portal, (c)2014). - 1 online resource (ix, 426 pages). - Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 4 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

""Cover""; ""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""



9781442657335




Leone, di Vercelli, approximately 965-1026.


Vercelli book.


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


Electronic Books.

PR1495 / .N497 2009 PR1495