2240.
Wright
(Charles D.): The Irish ‘enumerative style’ in Old English homiletic literature, especially Vercelli Homily IX.
In
CMCS 18
(Winter, 1989), pp. 27–74.
Argues that Old English homilists adapted numerical motifs from Old Irish and Hiberno-Latin models.
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Classifications:
F 3.2 Literature and learning: Typology: Themes, motifs
K 3.3.2 Christianity: Other religious literature: Instructional, apocryphal, imaginative: Homilies, sermons
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Author/Textual Sources:
Apgitir chrábaid (Colmán macc Béognai)
Catechesis Celtica
Collectanea Bedae
Liber de numeris