Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England 1442646128, 9781442646124
The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challe
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Table of contents :
Abbreviations and Short Titles
Introduction / Paul E. Szarmach
Old English Martyrology
1. Female Hagiography in the 'Old English Martyrology' / Christine Rauer
2. Bodies of Land: The Place of Gender in the 'Old English Martyrology' / Jacqueline Stodnick
Form and Genre
3. Why Is Margaret’s the Only 'Life' in London, BL, Cotton MS Tiberius A.iii? / Tracey-Anne Cooper
4. Æthelgifu’s Will as Hagiography / Mary Louise Fellows
5. Assuming Virginity: Tradition and the Naked Narrative in Ælfric’s Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin / Rebecca Stephenson
6. Genre Trouble: Reading the Old English 'Vita' of Saint Euphrosyne / Robin Norris
7. More Genre Trouble: The Life of Mary of Egypt / Paul E. Szarmach
Mothers
8. 'Nutrix pia': The Flowering of the Cult of St Æthelthryth in Anglo-Saxon England / John Black
9. The Kentish Queen as 'Omnium Mater': Goscelin of Saint-Bertin’s Lections and the Emergence of the Cult of Saint Seaxburh / Virginia Blanton
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 / Rhonda L. McDaniel
11. Heavenly Bodies: Paradoxes of Female Martyrdom in Ælfric’s 'Lives of Saints' / Renée R. Trilling
12. 'Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!': Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Depiction of Female Sanctity / Rosalind Love
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Abbreviations and Short Titles
Introduction / Paul E. Szarmach
Old English Martyrology
1. Female Hagiography in the 'Old English Martyrology' / Christine Rauer
2. Bodies of Land: The Place of Gender in the 'Old English Martyrology' / Jacqueline Stodnick
Form and Genre
3. Why Is Margaret’s the Only 'Life' in London, BL, Cotton MS Tiberius A.iii? / Tracey-Anne Cooper
4. Æthelgifu’s Will as Hagiography / Mary Louise Fellows
5. Assuming Virginity: Tradition and the Naked Narrative in Ælfric’s Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin / Rebecca Stephenson
6. Genre Trouble: Reading the Old English 'Vita' of Saint Euphrosyne / Robin Norris
7. More Genre Trouble: The Life of Mary of Egypt / Paul E. Szarmach
Mothers
8. 'Nutrix pia': The Flowering of the Cult of St Æthelthryth in Anglo-Saxon England / John Black
9. The Kentish Queen as 'Omnium Mater': Goscelin of Saint-Bertin’s Lections and the Emergence of the Cult of Saint Seaxburh / Virginia Blanton
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 / Rhonda L. McDaniel
11. Heavenly Bodies: Paradoxes of Female Martyrdom in Ælfric’s 'Lives of Saints' / Renée R. Trilling
12. 'Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!': Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Depiction of Female Sanctity / Rosalind Love
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
