Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England /

Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England / / Paul Szarmach.

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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Szarmach, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations and Short Titles
  • Introduction
  • Old English Martyrology
  • 1. Female Hagiography in the Old English Martyrology / Rauer, Christine
  • 2. Bodies of Land: The Place of Gender in the Old English Martyrology / Stodnick, Jacqueline
  • Form and Genre
  • 3. Why Is Margaret's the Only Life in London, BL, Cotton MS Tiberius A.iii? / Cooper, Tracey-Anne
  • 4 Æthelgifu's Will as Hagiography / Fellows, Mary Louise
  • 5. Assuming Virginity: Tradition and the Naked Narrative in Ælfric's Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin / Stephenson, Rebecca
  • 6. Genre Trouble: Reading the Old English Vita of Saint Euphrosyne / Norris, Robin
  • 7. More Genre Trouble: The Life of Mary of Egypt / Szarmach, Paul E.
  • Mothers
  • 8. "Nutrix pia": The Flowering of the Cult of St Æthelthryth in Anglo-Saxon England / Black, John
  • 9. The Kentish Queen as Omnium Mater: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Lections and the Emergence of the Cult of Saint Seaxburh / Blanton, Virginia
  • Virgin Martyrs
  • 10. Agnes among the Anglo-Saxons: Patristic Inluences in Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon Versions of the Passio of St Agnes, Virgin and Martyr / McDaniel, Rhonda L.
  • 11. Heavenly Bodies: Paradoxes of Female Martyrdom in Ælfric's Lives of Saints / Trilling, Renée R.
  • 12. "Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!" Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Depiction of Female Sanctity / Love, Rosalind
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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