| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 14
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Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 14.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Martyrologium (Anglo-Saxon)
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Martyrologium (Anglo-Saxon) |
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Christian literature, English (Old) -- History and criticism.
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Christian literature, English (Old) |
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Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism.
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Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) |
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English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500.
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Christian hagiography. |
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Christian women saints in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Mothers in literature.
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Mothers in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Szarmach, Paul E., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781442646124 |
| ISBN |
9781442664579 (electronic book) |
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1442664576 (electronic book) |
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9781442646124 |
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1442646128 |
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