Samantha Zacher: 2 books
Preaching the Converted
The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in the tenth century. Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of the book's prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques commonly associated...
Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse
Becoming the Chosen People
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
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...