Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies
(Part of the Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:080209158X
ISBN13:9780802091581
Release Date:May 2009
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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