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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."--Publisher description.

English prose literature --- Sermons, English (Old) --- Anglo-Saxon sermons --- English sermons, Old --- Old English sermons --- Sermons, Anglo-Saxon --- Sermons, Old English --- English literature --- Criticism, Textual. --- Christian pastoral theology --- Vercelli book. --- Vercelli book --- Codex Vercellensis --- <> Vercelli book --- <> Vercelli homilies --- Handschrift --- Sammelhandschrift --- Biblioteca Capitolare --- ca. 2. Hälfte 10. Jh.

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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.

English literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Criticism, Textual. --- Vercelli book. --- Codex Vercellensis --- Vercellensis Codex --- Leone,

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Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can shed immense light on texts more broadly.

English language --- Germanic languages --- Lexicology. --- Lexicography. --- Antonette di Paolo Healey. --- Old English. --- contributions. --- early medieval English concepts. --- essays. --- individual words. --- lexical puzzles. --- lexicography. --- lexicology. --- manuscript traditions. --- semantic fields. --- source studies. --- texts.