Szarmach Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4426-6457-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szarmach, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Paul E. SzarmachOld English MartyrologyFemale Hagiography in the Old English Martyrology - Christine Rauer (University of St. Andrews)Bodies and Land: The Place of Gender in the Old English Martyrology - Jacqueline Stodnick (University of Texas)Form and GenreWhy is Margaret’s the Only Life in London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A.iii? - Tracey Anne Cooper (St. John’s University)Æthelgifu’s Will as Hagiography - Mary Louise Fellows (University of Minnesota Law School)Assuming Virginity: Tradition and the Naked Narrative in Ælfric’s Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin - Rebecca Stephenson (University of Louisiana at Monroe)Genre Trouble: Reading the Old English Vita of Saint Euphrosyne - Robin Norris (Carleton University)More Genre Trouble: The Life of Mary of Egypt - Paul E. Szarmach (Western Michigan University)Mothers‘Nutrix Pia’: The Flowering of the Cult of Æthelthryth in Anglo-Saxon England - John Black (Moravian College)The Kentish Queen as Omnium Mater: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin’s Lections and the Emergence of the Cult of Saint Seaxburh - Virginia Blanton (University of Missouri, Kansas City)Virgin MartyrsAgnes Among the Angles: Patristic Influences in Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon Versions of the Passio of Saint Agnes - Rhonda McDaniel (Middle Tennessee State University)Heavenly Bodies: Paradoxes of Martyrdom in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints - Renée Trilling (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)‘Torture Me, Rend Me, Burn Me, Kill Me!’ Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Depiction of Female Sanctity - Rosalind Love (University of Cambridge)

Über Autor(innen)

SzarmachPaul:

Paul E. Szarmach is an emeritus professor of English and Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University and a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley.