Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 3
5. The Vercelli Prose and Anglo-Saxon Literary History 12
6. Studies in the Language of Copyists of the Vercelli Homilies 41
7. The Portents at Christ’s Birth in Vercelli Homilies V and VI: Some Analogues from Medieval Sermons and Biblical Commentaries 62
8. The Source of Vercelli VII: An Address to Women 98
9. Vercelli Homily XV and The Apocalypse of Thomas 150
10. The ‘Homiletics’ of the Vercelli Book Poems: The Case of Homiletic Fragment I 185
11. The Dream of the Rood: Cross-References 225
12. Vercelli Homilies XIX–XXI, the Ascension Day Homily in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162, and the Catechetical Tradition from Augustine to Wulfstan 254
13. The Reburial of the Cross in the Old English Elene 280
14. The Journey Motif in the Poems of the Vercelli Book 298
15. The Vercelli Book and Its Texts: A Guide to Scholarship 318
16. Index of Manuscripts 417
17. General Index 419
18. Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 427