Teaching the Teachers
The Vercelli Book and the Mixed Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8861860 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francis Leneghan (0000-0002-3999-6533, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 627-658 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2013.814319 |
| OpenAlex | W2026495313 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 38 |
In this article I propose that the rationale of the compilation of the Vercelli Book is best appreciated if we group texts according to theme and content rather than form. The distinction between prose and verse appears to have been of little concern to the compiler, who combines homiletic texts with exemplary narratives concerning the education of teachers and, finally, a life of a hermit. This points to an interest in the tension between the pastoral duties of the preacher and the contemplative virtues of the ascetic life. Drawing on Gregory the Great's influential formulation of the “mixed life” of the ideal pastor in his “Cura Pastoralis”, I argue that the Vercelli Book invites the implied preacher-reader to balance the duty of preaching with the need for prayer, thereby harmonizing the active and contemplative lives
Aesthetics · Art · Asceticism · Contemplation · Duty · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Narrative · Prayer · Theme (computing · Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Computer Science · Medieval Literature and History · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Philosophy
Cynewulf’s Resonance within the Vercelli Book
Memory, Sight and Love in Cynewulf’sElene
Le vieil-anglais
Revisiting OE holm-wudu in The Dream of the Rood
Male and Female Devotion in Three Texts of the Vercelli Book
The Textual Criticism of The Dream of the Rood
Archbishop Wulfstan's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Private Study and Opportune Words
Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950–1200
The corpus of vernacular homilies and prose saints' lives before Ælfric
The Old English Benedictine Rule
The compilation of the Vercelli Book
Self-contained units in composite manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon period
The origin of the Exeter Book of Old English poetry
The lexical and syntactic variants shared by two of the later manuscripts of King Alfred's translation of Gregory's Cura Pastoralis
The Bishop as Pastor and Solitary
Cynewulf's Runes in Juliana and Fates of the Apostles
Cynewulf's Runes in Christ II and Elene
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |