Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Seeking Out Gold in the Mud
Chapter 1: Homiliaries, Apocrypha, and Preaching Networks
Chapter 2: Apostles, Trinity, and Reform in Blickling 15
Chapter 3: Ælfric and Correct Doctrine
Chapter 4: Translating Jesus in Text and Image
Chapter 5: A Network Microcosm in Bodley 343
Conclusion: Mediating Tradition
Excursus on Terminology
Appendices
Brandon W. Hawk is an assistant professor of English at
Rhode Island College.
" Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is elegantly written,
well researched, and on point with the most up-to-date scholarship
on early English homiletics, vernacular preaching, and studies in
early medieval religious and lay piety. Brandon W. Hawk's claim
that homilies comprised one of the earliest forms of "mass media"
allows him to situate his study within a fascinating theoretical
framework of media studies, with appropriate emphasis on networks
and media archaeology. This book will serve as an important
resource for students and scholars interested in the history of
preaching, and especially early forms of vernacular
devotion."--Samantha Zacher, Department of English, Cornell
University
"Brandon W. Hawk builds on recent work demonstrating the prevalence
of apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, and takes the scholarly
conversation a significant step further. Notably, Preaching
Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England situates apocryphal narratives at
the heart of Anglo-Saxon sermon literature and makes very judicious
use of media studies theory to show how these texts were used.
Advancing our understanding, Hawk challenges any simplistic
categorizations of apocrypha." --Mary Clayton, School of English,
Drama, and Film, University College Dublin
"Brandon W. Hawk's Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is an
exemplary study of the integral role that Christian apocrypha plays
in the religious media of the period. The book combines the best of
traditional methods with contemporary theory, namely network theory
and media studies, and tools, such as data visualization. In so
doing, it profitably uses contemporary theoretical approaches and
detailed readings of Latin and Old English to provoke and elucidate
connections between and among a disparate temporal and generic
range of material."--Aidan Conti, Department of Linguistics,
Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen
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