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