Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England
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Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Abbreviations and Short Titles
  3. Introduction
  4. Old English Martyrology
  5. 1. Female Hagiography in the Old English Martyrology
  6. 2. Bodies of Land: The Place of Gender in the Old English Martyrology
  7. Form and Genre
  8. 3. Why Is Margaret’s the Only Life in London, BL, Cotton MS Tiberius A.iii?
  9. 4 Æthelgifu’s Will as Hagiography
  10. 5. Assuming Virginity: Tradition and the Naked Narrative in Ælfric’s Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin
  11. 6. Genre Trouble: Reading the Old English Vita of Saint Euphrosyne
  12. 7. More Genre Trouble: The Life of Mary of Egypt
  13. Mothers
  14. 8. “Nutrix pia”: The Flowering of the Cult of St Æthelthryth in Anglo-Saxon England
  15. 9. The Kentish Queen as Omnium Mater: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin’s Lections and the Emergence of the Cult of Saint Seaxburh
  16. Virgin Martyrs
  17. 10. Agnes among the Anglo-Saxons: Patristic Inluences in Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon Versions of the Passio of St Agnes, Virgin and Martyr
  18. 11. Heavenly Bodies: Paradoxes of Female Martyrdom in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints
  19. 12. “Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!” Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Depiction of Female Sanctity
  20. Bibliography
  21. Contributors
  22. Index