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The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically surveying the manuscripts of surviving poems, the book shows how these vernacular poets commemorated the H

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Author

Samantha Zacher;

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781441185600

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Religion

Updated

2026-03-25