New Readings in the Vercelli Book (Toronto Anglo-Saxon, 4, Band 4) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080209869X ISBN 13: 9780802098696

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

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of both the poetry and prose texts of the Vercelli Book, providing important new perspectives on a dynamic and valuable historical document.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Samantha Zacher is a professor of English and medieval studies at Cornell University. Andy Orchard is a professor of Old English at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080209869X
• ISBN 13: 9780802098696
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
• Herausgeber: Zacher Samantha, Orchard Andy
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