Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England /

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The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Szarmach, Paul E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Martyrologium (Anglo-Saxon)
Women and literature > England > History > To 1500.
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Christian literature, English > History and criticism.
Hagiografie.
Angelsachsen.
Heilige.
Christliche Literatur.
Altenglisch.
Women saints in literature.
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Mothers in literature.
English literature > Old English.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Christian literature, English (Old)
Christian hagiography.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Saintes dans la litterature.
Meres dans la litterature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Saintes chretiennes dans la litterature.
Hagiographie chretienne > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Litterature anglaise > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature chretienne latine medievale et moderne > Histoire et critique.
Litterature chretienne anglaise (vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Christian hagiography > History > To 1500.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) > History and criticism.
Christian literature, English (Old) > History and criticism.
England.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Paul E. Szarmach
  • Female hagiography in the Old English Martyrology / Christine Rauer
  • Bodies and land : the place of gender in the Old English Martyrology / Jacqueline Stodnick
  • Why is Margaret's the only Life in London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A.iii? / Tracey-Anne Cooper
  • AEthelgifu's Will as hagiography / Mary Louise Fellows
  • Assuming virginity : tradition and the naked narrative in AElfric's Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin / Rebecca Stephenson
  • Genre trouble : reading the Old English Vita of Saint Euphrosyne / Robin Norris
  • More genre trouble : the life of Mary of Egypt / Paul E. Szarmach
  • "Nutrix pia" : the flowering of the cult of St AEthelthryth in Anglo-Saxon England / John Black
  • The Kentish Queen as Omnium Mater : Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Lections and the emergence of the cult of Saint Seaxburh / Virginia Blanton
  • Agnes among the Anglo-Saxons : patristic influences in Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon versions of the Passio of Saint Agnes / Rhonda McDaniel
  • Heavenly bodies : paradoxes of martyrdom in AElfric's Lives of Saints / Renée R. Trilling
  • "Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!" Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the depiction of female sanctity / Rosalind Love.

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