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

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Szarmach, Paul E []

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9781442664579

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PR179 .W758 2013

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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 -- Æthelgifu's Will as hagiography / Mary Louise Fellows -- Assuming virginity : tradition and the naked narrative in Ælfric'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 Æthelthryth 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 Ælfric'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.

Subject: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 -- Æthelgifu's Will as hagiography / Mary Louise Fellows -- Assuming virginity : tradition and the naked narrative in Ælfric'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 Æthelthryth 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 Ælfric'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.

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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