Bibliograph

Writing women saints in Anglo-Saxon England, edited by Paul E. Szarmach

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Writing women saints in Anglo-Saxon England, edited by Paul E. Szarmach

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Writing women saints in Anglo-Saxon England

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

824604936

Responsibility statement

edited by Paul E. Szarmach

Series statement

Toronto Anglo-Saxon series, 14

Summary

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 contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life

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