This book contains the twenty-three prose works of The Vercelli Book, a late tenth-century manuscript. With the exception of some three or four homilies, these works have never before appeared in translated form, much less in a collection. The Vercelli Book contains a significant body of prose and poetry. While the poetry is already well known, having been translated many times, the prose, largely untranslated, remains for many relatively unknown. Will be of interest to the student of medieval literature.

The Vercelli Book Homilies

Nicholson, Lewis E.

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University Press of America

Contents:\nThe Christian coloring in the Beowulf by F.A. Blackburn 
The heroic age, an excerpt by H. Munro Chadwick 
The ideal of kingship in Beowulf by Levin L. Schücking 
Beowulf: the monsters and the critics by J.R.R. Tolkien 
The religious principle in Beowulf by Marie Padgett Hamilton 
Beowulf by Kemp Malone 
Beowulf and Christian allegory: an interpretation of Unferth by Morton W. Bloomfield 
The doctrine of charity in mediaeval literary gardens: a topical approach through symbolism and allegory by D.W. Robertson, Jr. 
The oral-formulaic character of Anglo-Saxon narrative poetry by Francis p. Magoun, Jr. 
Beowulf and the Liturgy by Allen Cabaniss 
Beowulf's three great fights by H.L. Rogers 
Good and evil: light and darkness: joy and sorrow in Beowulf by Herbert G. Wright 
Sapientia et fortitudo as the controlling theme of Beowulf by R.E. Kaske 
Sutton Hoo and Beowulf by C.L. Wrenn 
Beowulf -an allegory of salvation? by M.B. McNamee 
The Beowulf poet by Paull F. Baum 
Patristics and Old English literature: notes on some poems by Morton W. Bloomfield 
The Christian perspective in Beowulf by Margaret E. Goldsmith

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